Cheese spreads manufacturing · Wisconsin

Dairy State Cheese LLC

Rudolph, WI · ~145 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dairy State Cheese LLC runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese spreads manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Dairy State Cheese LLC: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Cheese spreads manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dairy State Cheese LLC safety composite

Dairy State Cheese LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−3.5

2023→2024

Dairy State Cheese LLC injury rate improved

Dairy State Cheese LLC's TCR fell 3.5 from 5.1 in 2023 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.1 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Rudolph, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #39/171
  • PHOTO Saputo Cheese_Green …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saputo Cheese_Green Bay (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dairy State Cheese LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dairy State Cheese LLC averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Cheese spreads manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dairy State Cheese LLC TCR series: 2023=5.1 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Dairy State Cheese LLC falls in its industry

377 Cheese spreads manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% 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 #39 safest of 171 Cheese spreads manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Dairy State Cheese LLC (145 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Dairy State Cheese LLC
Dairy State Cheese LLC (145 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Dairy State Cheese LLC has more employees than the Cheese spreads manufacturing 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
2024 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2023 5.1 2.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Rudolph

377 Cheese spreads 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 Saputo Cheese_Green Bay 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - New Denmark 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mullins Cheese 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schuman Cheese Elgin 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE OCONOMOWOC WI PLANT 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silgan Containers Frontier Rd 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stainless Foundry and Engineering inc 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gleason Reel 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bank-A-Count Corp. 43 FTE
NAT-TCR USA Newark 86 Olympia Dr 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Steel Casting Company 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Care One at Lowell 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ai-tek Instruments,llc 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farm Operations 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE GNS Canton 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heathman Lodge and Hudson's Bar & Grill 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Navitor Labelworks - 0021 145 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.