Ice cream manufacturing · Wisconsin

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc.

Madison, WI · ~128 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc. runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ice cream manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc.: 5.2 TCR = 158% of Ice cream manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc. safety composite

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc.: 4.1 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.2 from 4.1 in 2017 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311520 · Madison, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 158% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK P42
  • PHOTO Sunny Florida Dairy
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunny Florida Dairy (0.1 TCR gap)

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Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc. averages 5.2 TCR (158% of the Ice cream manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc. falls in its industry

111 Ice cream manufacturing establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc. (128 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc.
Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc. (128 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Ice cream manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 6.3 6.3 8 0 0
2023 5.3 5.3 7 0 0
2017 4.1 4.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · WI · Madison

111 Ice cream manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 577 employers in Madison, 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 Sunny Florida Dairy 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ice Cream Specialties 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Titusville Dairy Products 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland YoCream 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. G. Huston Co., Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holtger Bros., Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction Resources Management, Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE AW Oakes & Son, Inc. 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital - Madison 2,401 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meriter Hospital 2,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR EatStreet 1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR TDS - Junction Road (All Employees) 1,302 FTE
NAT-TCR Holden Electric Co., Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kelsey Construction 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 06 Gering, NE 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mspas - Pascagoula 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Coast Tomato, LLC 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-Chino Substation 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE 753 Loves Park 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE 744 Newburgh 128 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, 2017. 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.