Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage)

Portage, WI · ~342 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage) runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage): 8.0 TCR = 243% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage) safety composite

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage): 5.4 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2018

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage)'s TCR rose 4.5 from 5.4 in 2016 to 9.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Portage, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 243% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #127/171
  • PHOTO Fleur de Lait East LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~342 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fleur de Lait East LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage) in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage) averages 8.0 TCR (243% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage) TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=9.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage) falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #127 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage) (342 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage)
Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage) (342 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage) has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 9.9 6.6 33 0 0
2017 8.7 4.7 22 6 0
2016 5.4 2.6 14 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Portage

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 40 employers in Portage, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Fleur de Lait East LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stickney Hill Dairy 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rosewood Dairy, Inc 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bongards Creameries - Perham 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WB Manufacturing LLC 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1447 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE CARTHAGE COLLEGE 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay Valley Foods - Green Bay 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR Divine Savior Hospital, Clinics and Homecare 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Divine Savior 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR SGPPL-Portage 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1799 347 FTE
NAT-TCR KWF Kissimmee, FL 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HOPE Family Health (Sumner, Westside and Dental Locations) 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #278 FRANKFORT, KY 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-Town SOHO Restaurant LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE West-Ward Eatontown 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cooperative Production, Inc. 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCF Hotel Service 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE #604 Toms River Shoprite 342 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.