Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · Wisconsin

Baker Cheese Factory, Inc

St. Cloud, WI · ~262 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baker Cheese Factory, Inc runs at 391% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Baker Cheese Factory, Inc: 12.9 TCR = 391% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baker Cheese Factory, Inc safety composite

Baker Cheese Factory, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2016→2022

Baker Cheese Factory, Inc injury rate improved

Baker Cheese Factory, Inc's TCR fell 2.9 from 13.8 in 2016 to 10.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.8 · 2019=15.3 · 2020=11.7 · 2021=12.8 · 2022=10.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · St. Cloud, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.9 · 391% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #164/171
  • PHOTO Cedar Grove Warehous…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 145 inj
  • SIZE ~262 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cedar Grove Warehousing (0.3 TCR gap)

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Baker Cheese Factory, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baker Cheese Factory, Inc averages 12.9 TCR (391% of the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Baker Cheese Factory, Inc TCR series: 2016=13.8 · 2019=15.3 · 2020=11.7 · 2021=12.8 · 2022=10.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Baker Cheese Factory, Inc falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #164 safest of 171 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Wisconsin.

Baker Cheese Factory, Inc (262 employees, TCR 12.9) 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 Baker Cheese Factory, Inc
Baker Cheese Factory, Inc (262 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Baker Cheese Factory, Inc has more employees than the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), 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
2022 10.9 9.1 26 3 0
2021 12.8 9.8 29 5 0
2020 11.7 9.6 25 9 0
2019 15.3 9.3 34 12 0
2016 13.8 10.2 31 11 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · St. Cloud

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 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 Cedar Grove Warehousing 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jim Falls 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blair 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - Langes Corners 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grande Brownsville 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trachte Building Systems Inc. 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE Komtasu - National Ave 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACS Group 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Cloud 317 FTE
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Dorchester 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MN State Operated Community Services (MSOCS) 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Elba DH 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 382101-Day-Wright Brothers Sta 12.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0694 - Vacaville Ca Whse 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0466 - Prescott Az Whse 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0683 - Lewisville Tx Whse 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nccorp-Opi-Charlotte Corporate 262 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.