Yeast manufacturing · Wisconsin

Chr Hansen - West Allis

West Allis, WI · ~368 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chr Hansen - West Allis runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Yeast manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Chr Hansen - West Allis: 2.6 TCR = 63% of Yeast manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chr Hansen - West Allis safety composite

Chr Hansen - West Allis scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

−1.4

2022→2024

Chr Hansen - West Allis injury rate improved

Chr Hansen - West Allis's TCR fell 1.4 from 3.7 in 2022 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.7 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · West Allis, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 63% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #6/22
  • PHOTO NOW Foods -Sparks
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~368 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NOW Foods -Sparks (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chr Hansen - West Allis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chr Hansen - West Allis averages 2.6 TCR (63% of the Yeast manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chr Hansen - West Allis TCR series: 2022=3.7 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Chr Hansen - West Allis falls in its industry

335 Yeast manufacturing establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 22 Yeast manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Chr Hansen - West Allis (368 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chr Hansen - West Allis
Chr Hansen - West Allis (368 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Chr Hansen - West Allis has more employees than the Yeast manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 2.3 2.3 8 0 0
2023 1.8 1.5 6 0 0
2022 3.7 2.8 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · WI · West Allis

335 Yeast manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 104 employers in West Allis, 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 NOW Foods -Sparks 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glanbia Nutritionals 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PacMoore a Division of Glanbia Nutritionals 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rothschild 368 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rogers Behavioral Health 368 FTE
STATE-SIZE ND Paper 367 FTE
STATE-SIZE 850/859 American Construction Metals 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora West Allis Medical Center 2,195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winter Services, LLC 1,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clean Power 1,104 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02-Milwaukee 554 FTE
NAT-TCR Erlanger 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Freight Management Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Aspinwall Cooperative Co 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Office of Elections 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tropicale Foods LLC 368 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pawlb - Wilkes-Barre 368 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thos. Somerville Co. 368 FTE
NAT-SIZE DC39 368 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. 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.