Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Crystal Farms RDC

Lake Mills, WI · ~71 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Crystal Farms RDC runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Crystal Farms RDC: 2.6 TCR = 78% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Crystal Farms RDC safety composite

Crystal Farms RDC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−0.6

2016→2022

Crystal Farms RDC injury rate improved

Crystal Farms RDC's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.6 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.6 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=1.8 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Lake Mills, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 78% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #23/171
  • PHOTO Gehl Foods, LLC. - M…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gehl Foods, LLC. - Main Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Crystal Farms RDC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Crystal Farms RDC averages 2.6 TCR (78% 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

Crystal Farms RDC TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=1.8 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Crystal Farms RDC falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 80% 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 #23 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Crystal Farms RDC (71 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Crystal Farms RDC
Crystal Farms RDC (71 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Crystal Farms RDC has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a lower 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
2022 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2018 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2017 5.3 5.3 4 0 0
2016 2.6 2.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Lake Mills

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 20 employers in Lake Mills, 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 Gehl Foods, LLC. - Main Street 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Grove Cheese Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Slippery Rock 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glanbia Twin Falls Cheese Plant 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Renk Seed Company 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Integrated Process Engineers & Constructors, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Samuels Group, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rural Masonry Co Inc 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seljan Company 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creekwood 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR HammerHead Trenchless 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crystal Farms 113 FTE
NAT-TCR 2904-ASM-MO 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Park Point Village 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SuperMax Laguna Gardens 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 9123-Sav-Prime Appearance 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG210 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gelson's Markets #30 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gelson's Markets #32 71 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 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.