Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom

Name: BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Appleton, Wi, WI · ~200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom safety composite

BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom: 4.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2024

BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.0 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Appleton, Wi, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK #57/171
PHOTO Fiscalini Cheese Com…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 17 inj
SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fiscalini Cheese Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom TCR series: 2023=4 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom (200 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a lower 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	4.4	1.5	9	0	0
2023	4.0	0.5	8	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Appleton, Wi

377 Cheese (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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Fiscalini Cheese Company, Inc.	MODESTO, CA	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Brewster, Ohio	BREWSTER, OH	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Land O'Lakes Kiel Dairy Foods	KIEL, WI	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc.	SEYMOUR, WI	4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill	MERRILL	200 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rockland FLooring	ROCKLAND	200 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SUSSEX WI - HIGH TECH CNTR	SUSSEX	200 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Olympus Group Inc	MILWAUKEE	200 FTE
NAT-TCR	New Nello Operating Co LLC	South Bend, IN	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	D3230	Lakeland, FL	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	MSU - Union	Springfield, MO	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Giant 780	Falls Church, VA	4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Atl Ltl	Forest Park, GA	200 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Printing Services	Salt Lake City, UT	200 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Innomark Communications- Trade Center	West Chester, OH	200 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Millennium Post-Acute Rehabilitation	West Columbia, SC	200 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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