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
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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).

C

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

TCR

What this shows Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese averages 5.1 TCR (155% 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

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) establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #81 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese (49 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese (49 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

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 →

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, 2021, 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.