Candy, chocolate, made from cacao beans · Wisconsin

Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee

Milwaukee, WI · ~348 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Candy, chocolate, made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade C.

Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee: 4.2 TCR = 100% of Candy, chocolate, made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee safety composite

Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee: 3.5 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2020

Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee's TCR rose 1.4 from 3.5 in 2019 to 4.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Milwaukee, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.2 · 100% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO GERTRUDE HAWK INGRED…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~348 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GERTRUDE HAWK INGREDIENTS (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee averages 4.2 TCR (100% of the Candy, chocolate, made from cacao beans BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2020=4.9 · BLS 4.2

Where Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee falls in its industry

65 Candy, chocolate, made from ca establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Candy, chocolate, made from ca employers in Wisconsin.

Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee (348 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee
Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee (348 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate Milwaukee has more employees than the Candy, chocolate, made from cacao beans median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.9 4.6 14 1 0
2019 3.5 2.5 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · WI · Milwaukee

65 Candy, chocolate, made from cacao beans employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 980 employers in Milwaukee, 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 GERTRUDE HAWK INGREDIENTS 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blommer Chocolate Chicago 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 750 Pine Street 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milwaukee Bucks 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE A&B Process Systems Corp 347 FTE
STATE-SIZE Presto Appleton 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mukwonago Operations 347 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 7,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR FROEDTERT HOSPITAL 7,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milwaukee Hospital 3,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital - Milw Campus 2,851 FTE
NAT-TCR Dominion Senior Living of Athens 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Good Samaritan Hospice - Ipu 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Live Turkey - Springdale AR Ag Breeders 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Enwork Headquarters 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Support Center 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Maintenance and Welding 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freedom Village Brandywine 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Composits Inc. 348 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.