Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Comstock Creamery LLC

Comstock, WI · ~40 workers · 3 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

Comstock Creamery LLC runs at 528% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Comstock Creamery LLC: 17.4 TCR = 528% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Comstock Creamery LLC safety composite

Comstock Creamery LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−0.4

2018→2020

Comstock Creamery LLC injury rate improved

Comstock Creamery LLC's TCR fell 0.4 from 9.6 in 2018 to 9.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 33.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.6 · 2019=33.5 · 2020=9.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 17.4 · 528% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #170/171
  • PHOTO Cascade Cheese Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cascade Cheese Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Comstock Creamery LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Comstock Creamery LLC averages 17.4 TCR (528% 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

Comstock Creamery LLC TCR series: 2018=9.6 · 2019=33.5 · 2020=9.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Comstock Creamery LLC falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #170 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Comstock Creamery LLC (40 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 Comstock Creamery LLC
Comstock Creamery LLC (40 employees, TCR 17.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Comstock Creamery LLC 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
2020 9.2 2.3 4 0 0
2019 33.5 21.3 10 1 0
2018 9.6 4.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Comstock

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 Cascade Cheese Company 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 W. & E. Radtke, Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABS Global-Waunakee 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Port Washington Generating Station 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE AZCO WPL Wood County Solar 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Divvy 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZCHM 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Bristal at Mount Sinai 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Broekema Beltway USA, Inc. - CA 17.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Washington Elementary 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Head Office 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fortune Metal Midwest 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE FoxFire, LLC 40 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.