Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie

Menomonie, WI · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie runs at 336% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie: 11.1 TCR = 336% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie safety composite

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie: 9.4 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie's TCR rose 3.4 from 9.4 in 2023 to 12.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Menomonie, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 336% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK #160/171
  • PHOTO Associated Milk Prod…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Associated Milk Producers Inc (Paynesville Cheese Manufacturing) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie averages 11.1 TCR (336% 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

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie TCR series: 2023=9.4 · 2024=12.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #160 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie (93 employees, TCR 11.1) 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 Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie
Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie (93 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery-Menomonie 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 12.8 10.0 8 1 0
2023 9.4 7.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Menomonie

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 78 employers in Menomonie, 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 Associated Milk Producers Inc (Paynesville Cheese Manufacturing) 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2358_4306 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Biazzo 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hollands Family Cheese, LLC 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Boldt Company - Stevens Point, WI 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE PBBS Equipment Corporation - Corporate 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gene Frederickson Trucking Inc 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE GLK Foods, LLC 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6025 912 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6025 869 FTE
CITY-NEAR Menomonie 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phillips-Medisize, LLC - Phillips Medical 653 FTE
NAT-TCR RSC- Rising Star Casino 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mitchell Sd - 3515 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Txluf - Lufkin 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rogue Community Health - Dental - Royal 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cascade AIDS Project 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE JAAM Electric 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duda Cable Construction Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scotia Village 93 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.