Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery

Ellsworth, WI · ~174 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery: 7.7 TCR = 233% of Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery safety composite

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery held a steady TCR band

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.1 in 2018 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.1 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=11.7 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=10.5 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 233% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #121/171
  • PHOTO Ornua Ingredients No…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ornua Ingredients North America (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery averages 7.7 TCR (233% of the Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery TCR series: 2018=6.1 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=11.7 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=10.5 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery falls in its industry

377 Curds, cheese, made in a chees establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #121 safest of 171 Curds, cheese, made in a chees employers in Wisconsin.

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery (174 employees, TCR 7.7) 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
Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery (174 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery has more employees than the Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, m 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 5.8 1.9 6 0 0
2023 6.2 6.2 6 1 0
2022 10.5 9.2 8 8 0
2021 5.3 1.2 6 3 0
2020 11.7 5.2 12 6 0
2019 8.2 3.0 10 1 0
2018 6.1 0.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Ellsworth

377 Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 11 employers in Ellsworth, 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 Ornua Ingredients North America 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIZO-LOPEZ FOODS INC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glenmore 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meister Cheese Company LLC 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lemberg Electric - Main Office 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3050 WALKER DR 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincoln Wood Products 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Qure Medical - Sturtevant 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plummer Concrete 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellsworth Health Services 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nil9Ventures, Inc 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Post Acute Care of Ellsworth 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Dearborn Sales Branch 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR GBF 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sander's Markets Corry 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ABC Plumbing, Sewer, Heating, Cooling & Electric 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ranger Plant Constructional 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winamac Coil Spring, Inc. 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCE Corporation 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Layton Facility 174 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.