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

Biery Cheese Company Plover

Plover, WI · ~128 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Biery Cheese Company Plover runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Biery Cheese Company Plover: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Biery Cheese Company Plover safety composite

Biery Cheese Company Plover scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−2.8

2016→2020

Biery Cheese Company Plover injury rate improved

Biery Cheese Company Plover's TCR fell 2.8 from 5.3 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2017=3.0 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Plover, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #27/171
  • PHOTO Foremost Farms USA (…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foremost Farms USA (Appleton, WI) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Biery Cheese Company Plover in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Biery Cheese Company Plover averages 3.0 TCR (90% 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

Biery Cheese Company Plover TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=3 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Biery Cheese Company Plover falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #27 safest of 171 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Wisconsin.

Biery Cheese Company Plover (128 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Biery Cheese Company Plover
Biery Cheese Company Plover (128 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Biery Cheese Company Plover has fewer employees than the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), 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
2020 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2019 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.2 1.1 3 0 0
2017 3.0 2.3 4 0 0
2016 5.3 4.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Plover

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 57 employers in Plover, 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 Foremost Farms USA (Appleton, WI) 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zumbrota, MN 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bioriginal (WI Speciality Protein) 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Paige 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. G. Huston Co., Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holtger Bros., Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction Resources Management, Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE AW Oakes & Son, Inc. 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1828 490 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1828 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monogram Appetizers Moore Road 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monogram Appetizers, LLC - MR 329 FTE
NAT-TCR San Joaquin County Environmental Health Department 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Virginia Beach VA Store 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BF Goodrich Tire Mfg 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dedicated - Dollar General Lebec 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pyramid Mountain Lumber, Inc. 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vandenberg Air Force Base 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lessors, Inc.- Dover 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Springs at Pacific Regent 128 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: 2020, 2019, 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.