Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese
Waterloo, WI · ~49 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 5.1
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese safety composite
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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).
64/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- D 5.13 per 100 workers
Safer than 47% of industry peers
- DART rate
- A 0 per 100 workers
Safer than 92% 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
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese: 2.8 → 3.5 TCR
Peak year 2023 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.8 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 311513 · Waterloo, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind
- DART 0.0 DART
- RANK #81/171
- PHOTO AFP Visalia
- BOOK 6y book
- INJ 16 inj
- SIZE ~49 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: AFP Visalia (0.0 TCR gap)
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Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese
5.1 TCR
- AFP Visalia
AFP Visalia
5.1 TCR
- Agropur - Luxe
Agropur - Luxemburg
5.1 TCR
- Saputo Cheese
Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces)
5.1 TCR
- MDS Foods, Inc
MDS Foods, Inc. - Tullahoma Location
5.1 TCR
What this shows Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese averages 5.1 TCR (155% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2019=6.4 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=7 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3
Where Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese falls in its industry
377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishmentsSafer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.
Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #81 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 7.0 | 5.3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6.4 | 4.3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
311513 · WI · Waterloo
377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 11 employers in Waterloo, 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 | AFP Visalia | 5.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Agropur - Luxemburg | 5.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) | 5.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | MDS Foods, Inc. - Tullahoma Location | 5.1 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | C Dairy LLC | 49 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Frey Construction and Home Improvement, LLC | 49 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Greater Fox Cities Area Habitat for Humanity, Inc. | 49 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Board Store Home Improvements, Inc. | 49 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Sheehy Mail Contractors | 221 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Waterloo | 148 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | McKay Nursery Company | 144 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Sussek Machine Company | 127 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Good Shepherd Hospice | 5.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Store 1467 | 5.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Tooling Technology LLC | 5.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Husky Terminal and Stevedoring, LLC | 5.1 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Angelus Plaza | 49 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Riverside 10299 | 49 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Rome 10298 | 49 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Raleigh 10231 | 49 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.