Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Cady Cheese, LLC

Wilson, WI · ~79 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cady Cheese, LLC runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Cady Cheese, LLC: 5.0 TCR = 150% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cady Cheese, LLC safety composite

Cady Cheese, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Cady Cheese, LLC: 1.9 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

Cady Cheese, LLC's TCR rose 2.5 from 1.9 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 150% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #77/171
  • PHOTO Burnett Dairy Cooper…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Burnett Dairy Cooperative (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cady Cheese, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cady Cheese, LLC averages 5.0 TCR (150% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cady Cheese, LLC TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=6 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=3 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Cady Cheese, LLC falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #77 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Cady Cheese, LLC (79 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Cady Cheese, LLC
Cady Cheese, LLC (79 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Cady Cheese, LLC has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu 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 4.4 3.5 4 1 0
2023 6.5 6.5 6 1 0
2022 3.0 3.0 3 0 0
2021 4.1 3.1 4 0 0
2020 6.2 3.7 3 2 0
2019 6.0 4.5 3 1 0
2018 7.4 4.4 5 0 0
2017 5.2 3.4 3 0 0
2016 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Wilson

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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Burnett Dairy Cooperative 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glanbia Gooding Cheese Plant 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Cheese Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MEDFORD 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oakbrook 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capitol Mechanical, Inc. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butter Buds Inc. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vesper Plant 79 FTE
NAT-TCR Valu Home Center #11 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Saporito Finishing Company 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McKinley Companies LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Foodtown of Atlantic Highlands - 266 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0521 Westport 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0509 West Newton 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richardson Milling Inc. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Helton Electrical Services, Inc 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.