Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown

Watertown, WI · ~267 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown: 2.3 TCR = 55% of Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown safety composite

Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown: 1.1 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2024

Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown's TCR rose 2.6 from 1.1 in 2022 to 3.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Watertown, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 55% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO American Licorice Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~267 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN (0.1 TCR gap)

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Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown averages 2.3 TCR (55% of the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown TCR series: 2022=1.1 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 4.2

Where Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown falls in its industry

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m establishments

Safer than 67% 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 #3 safest of 4 Confectionery, nonchocolate, m employers in Wisconsin.

Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown (267 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown
Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown (267 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Clasen Quality Chocolate - Watertown has more employees than the Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturi 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 3.7 3.0 11 0 0
2023 2.2 1.5 6 0 0
2022 1.1 0.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · WI · Watertown

123 Confectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 59 employers in Watertown, 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 American Licorice Company - La Porte, IN 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doumak Inc. - Corporate 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Family Foods Group, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 975 Kansas, Memphis Plant 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Saputo Cheese_Green Bay 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastics Engineering Company 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE HellermannTyton FK 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amerequip Kiel 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watertown Regional Medical Center 733 FTE
CITY-NEAR S0469 WATERTOWN REGIONAL MEDICAL CTR 602 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1776 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1776 296 FTE
NAT-TCR Kywbs - Dixie Warehouse 8 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ogden Ut Sales Center 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southdale Phys Bldg IAM RX 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR J&M Tank Lines 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE KBI Biopharma - Patriot Park 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Txbel - Belton Center 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Win-Con Enterprises Inc. 267 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aspirus Ironwood Hospital 267 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.