Grocery stores · Wisconsin

Chequamegon Food Cooperative

Ashland, WI · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chequamegon Food Cooperative runs at 305% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Chequamegon Food Cooperative: 10.4 TCR = 305% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chequamegon Food Cooperative safety composite

Chequamegon Food Cooperative scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2023→2024

Chequamegon Food Cooperative injury rate improved

Chequamegon Food Cooperative's TCR fell 0.4 from 10.6 in 2023 to 10.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=10.6 · 2024=10.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Ashland, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 305% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #360/389
  • PHOTO Las Vegas-Summerlin …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Las Vegas-Summerlin #158 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chequamegon Food Cooperative in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chequamegon Food Cooperative averages 10.4 TCR (305% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Chequamegon Food Cooperative TCR series: 2023=10.6 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Chequamegon Food Cooperative falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #360 safest of 389 Grocery stores employers in Wisconsin.

Chequamegon Food Cooperative (45 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Chequamegon Food Cooperative
Chequamegon Food Cooperative (45 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Chequamegon Food Cooperative has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 10.2 0.0 3 0 0
2023 10.6 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · WI · Ashland

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 38 employers in Ashland, 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 Las Vegas-Summerlin #158 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IN-INDIA03 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUPER STOP & SHOP 0545 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0017-0017-02799 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Denmark Dairy LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plover #205 Farms 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Babcock, WI Receiving Station 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR C. G. Bretting Manufacturing Company Inc. 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Clearing Inc. 392 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1672 247 FTE
NAT-TCR Shank Constructors 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Browne Trading Company 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Flcoc - Cocoa Center 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas-Summerlin #158 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Metalforming LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE A to Z Equipment Rntals 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foshee Construction Company Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE DCI Logistics 45 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. 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.