Cheese merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

Deli Source - Waterloo

Waterloo, WI · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Deli Source - Waterloo runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Deli Source - Waterloo: 1.7 TCR = 77% of Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Deli Source - Waterloo safety composite

Deli Source - Waterloo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−1.4

2022→2024

Deli Source - Waterloo injury rate improved

Deli Source - Waterloo's TCR fell 1.4 from 3.2 in 2022 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Waterloo, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 77% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/20
  • PHOTO 810 Purple Cow Cream…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 810 Purple Cow Creamery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Deli Source - Waterloo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Deli Source - Waterloo averages 1.7 TCR (77% of the Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Deli Source - Waterloo TCR series: 2022=3.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Deli Source - Waterloo falls in its industry

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 20 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers in Wisconsin.

Deli Source - Waterloo (40 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Deli Source - Waterloo
Deli Source - Waterloo (40 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Deli Source - Waterloo has fewer employees than the Cheese merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · WI · Waterloo

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers 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 810 Purple Cow Creamery 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mayfield - Morristown 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Broughton - Marietta - DTI 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNITED DAIRY FARMERS WHOLESALE 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE W. & E. Radtke, Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABS Global-Waunakee 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Port Washington Generating Station 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE AZCO WPL Wood County Solar 40 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 Paint Administration 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Plano Transportation - 3742 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 615-INDLH 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Odums Sod, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boca Raton, FL 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deltak Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial Roofing LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Underground Utilities 40 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.