Syrup, table, artificially flavored, manufacturing · Wisconsin

First Choice Ingredients

Germantown, WI · ~82 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Choice Ingredients runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Syrup, table, artificially flavored, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

First Choice Ingredients: 8.9 TCR = 218% of Syrup, table, artificially flavored, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Choice Ingredients safety composite

First Choice Ingredients scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

First Choice Ingredients held a steady TCR band

First Choice Ingredients's TCR held near 0.2 from 9.9 in 2016 to 9.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.9 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=9.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Germantown, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 218% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #20/22
  • PHOTO American Yeast Corp.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Yeast Corp. (0.1 TCR gap)

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First Choice Ingredients in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Choice Ingredients averages 8.9 TCR (218% of the Syrup, table, artificially flavored, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

First Choice Ingredients TCR series: 2016=9.9 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=9.7 · BLS 4.1

Where First Choice Ingredients falls in its industry

335 Syrup, table, artificially fla establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 22 Syrup, table, artificially fla employers in Wisconsin.

First Choice Ingredients (82 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 First Choice Ingredients
First Choice Ingredients (82 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

First Choice Ingredients has fewer employees than the Syrup, table, artificially flavored, man median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 9.7 9.7 4 0 0
2022 7.2 7.2 6 0 0
2016 9.9 6.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · WI · Germantown

335 Syrup, table, artificially flavored, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 112 employers in Germantown, 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 American Yeast Corp. 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canopy Foods-Downingtown Plant 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sokol and Company 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harry & David 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Van Der Geest Dairy Cattle, Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Pride Dairy LLC 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ebert Enterprises 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alma 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellsworth Corporation - Germantown, Wisconsin 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1515 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1515 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weimer Bearing & Transmission, Inc. 353 FTE
NAT-TCR New Bern Riverbend ICF 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascade Valley Senior Living 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Location 4 / EP 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2021 - Ukiah 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seaside Inn Rentals 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE County Market #506 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arcosa Shoring Products, Inc. - 1596 Union City 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Motion Systems : Des Plaines 82 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, 2022, 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.