Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Dawns Foods

Portage, WI · ~100 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dawns Foods runs at 400% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dawns Foods: 16.4 TCR = 400% of Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawns Foods safety composite

Dawns Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−8.4

2016→2023

Dawns Foods injury rate improved

Dawns Foods's TCR fell 8.4 from 23.8 in 2016 to 15.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 23.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=23.8 · 2017=21.1 · 2020=5.4 · 2023=15.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Portage, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.4 · 400% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO QT Kitchens - Dallas
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: QT Kitchens - Dallas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dawns Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dawns Foods averages 16.4 TCR (400% of the Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dawns Foods TCR series: 2016=23.8 · 2017=21.1 · 2020=5.4 · 2023=15.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Dawns Foods falls in its industry

376 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, employers in Wisconsin.

Dawns Foods (100 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dawns Foods
Dawns Foods (100 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Dawns Foods has fewer employees than the Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2023 15.4 4.4 21 0 0
2020 5.4 4.3 5 0 0
2017 21.1 14.1 7 2 0
2016 23.8 14.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · WI · Portage

376 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 40 employers in Portage, 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 QT Kitchens - Dallas 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commissary 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&P Packing Co.,Inc 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tubeway 16.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northern Area 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Niagara Bottling, LLC - Kenosha 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE PARRETT MFG., INC. 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Divine Savior Hospital, Clinics and Homecare 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Divine Savior 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR SGPPL-Portage 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1799 347 FTE
NAT-TCR Tippins 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HG851 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Spee Dee Delivery Service, Inc - Duluth 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1581 16.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kawneer Harrisonburg 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Little Enterprises LLC 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Super Stop & Shop 2807 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jewell Instruments 100 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: 2023, 2020, 2017, 2016. 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.