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

Barron County Cheese

Barron, WI · ~52 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barron County Cheese runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Barron County Cheese: 8.6 TCR = 262% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barron County Cheese safety composite

Barron County Cheese scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−9.8

2022→2024

Barron County Cheese injury rate improved

Barron County Cheese's TCR fell 9.8 from 12.4 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=12.4 · 2023=10.8 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Barron, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 262% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #137/171
  • PHOTO Emmi Roth USA - Stou…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Emmi Roth USA - Stoughton (0.1 TCR gap)

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Barron County Cheese in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barron County Cheese averages 8.6 TCR (262% 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

Barron County Cheese TCR series: 2022=12.4 · 2023=10.8 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Barron County Cheese falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #137 safest of 171 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Wisconsin.

Barron County Cheese (52 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Barron County Cheese
Barron County Cheese (52 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Barron County Cheese has fewer 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
2024 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 10.8 5.4 4 0 0
2022 12.4 9.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Barron

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 18 employers in Barron, 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 Emmi Roth USA - Stoughton 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Denmark 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese USA Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Cheese Group - Manufacturing Facility 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABS Dekorra 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milk Source, LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfire Management Services, LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoffman Planning, Design & Construction Inc 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barron Plant 1,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Northland (Barron) 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barron Grow Out 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barron Breeder Farms 120 FTE
NAT-TCR Rathmor Services 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Altercare Of Mayfield Village,inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR New Hope 10163 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Commons at Dallas Ranch 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brigham City UT DI 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baytown Service Center 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel aka University City 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Done Service Group 52 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.