Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Cascade Cheese Company

Cascade, WI · ~54 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cascade Cheese Company runs at 526% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Cascade Cheese Company: 17.4 TCR = 526% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cascade Cheese Company safety composite

Cascade Cheese Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.43 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%).

TCR Δ

−42.9

2021→2024

Cascade Cheese Company injury rate improved

Cascade Cheese Company's TCR fell 42.9 from 50.0 in 2021 to 7.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 50.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=50.0 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 17.4 · 526% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #169/171
  • PHOTO Comstock Creamery LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Comstock Creamery LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cascade Cheese Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cascade Cheese Company averages 17.4 TCR (526% 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

Cascade Cheese Company TCR series: 2021=50 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Cascade Cheese Company falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #169 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Cascade Cheese Company (54 employees, TCR 17.4) 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 Cascade Cheese Company
Cascade Cheese Company (54 employees, TCR 17.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Cascade Cheese Company 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 7.1 1.4 5 0 0
2023 4.6 1.5 3 0 0
2022 7.7 1.5 4 1 0
2021 50.0 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Cascade

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 Comstock Creamery LLC 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beecher's Production WA 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America 18.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dairy Dreams LLC 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE A&M Dittrich 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Utility Services, Inc- WI- Brownsville 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Payne & Dolan, Inc - Racine/Kensoha 54 FTE
NAT-TCR EHP - Eastern 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0658 Elkridge 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Polyfiber 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0707 Kentwood 17.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kingston Tile Company 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ochsner Medical Complex - Iberville 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Indianapolis 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterfowl Winery 54 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. 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.