Creamery butter manufacturing · Wisconsin

Butter Buds Inc.

Racine, WI · ~79 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butter Buds Inc. runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Creamery butter manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Butter Buds Inc.: 0.8 TCR = 23% of Creamery butter manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butter Buds Inc. safety composite

Butter Buds Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

85/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Butter Buds Inc.: 0.0 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Butter Buds Inc.'s TCR rose 1.2 from 0.0 in 2022 to 1.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311512 · Racine, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO LAND O LAKES INC - K…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAND O LAKES INC - KENT OH (0.6 TCR gap)

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Butter Buds Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butter Buds Inc. averages 0.8 TCR (23% of the Creamery butter manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Butter Buds Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Butter Buds Inc. falls in its industry

32 Creamery butter manufacturing establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Creamery butter manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Butter Buds Inc. (79 employees, TCR 0.8) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 23 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Butter Buds Inc.
Butter Buds Inc. (79 employees, TCR 0.8) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Butter Buds Inc. has fewer employees than the Creamery butter manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 1.2 0.0 0 1 0
2023 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311512 · WI · Racine

32 Creamery butter manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 111 employers in Racine, 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 LAND O LAKES INC - KENT OH 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2453-00060351-60351A 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indianapolis IN Reddi Wip 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms - Reedsburg 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oakbrook 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capitol Mechanical, Inc. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cady Cheese, LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vesper Plant 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-WIMIL98 1,550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Racine Offices 1,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR WIMIL98 ASCENSION ALL SAINTS HOSP - SPRING STREET 1,297 FTE
CITY-NEAR CNH Industrial - Racine Offices 944 FTE
NAT-TCR WB Moore Company 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Minnesota Services, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BioMerieux, INC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR QA Systems 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Legacy Couriers, Inc. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mill Creek Lumber and Supply - Tulsa Lumber/G & A 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adam's Sanitation 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boise Fill Plant 79 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.