Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms - Appleton

Name: Foremost Farms - Appleton Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Appleton, WI · ~178 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Foremost Farms - Appleton runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Foremost Farms - Appleton: 3.6 TCR = 110% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms - Appleton safety composite

Foremost Farms - Appleton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Foremost Farms - Appleton: 3.1 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2020

Foremost Farms - Appleton's TCR rose 0.8 from 3.1 in 2017 to 3.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 110% of ind

DART 2.8 DART
RANK #43/171
PHOTO Biery Cheese Company…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 28 inj
SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Biery Cheese Company Louisville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bel Brands USA

3.7
BREWSTER CHEES

3.7
This site

3.6
Biery Cheese C

3.6
Hilmar Cheese

3.6

What this shows Foremost Farms - Appleton averages 3.6 TCR (110% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Foremost Farms - Appleton TCR series: 2017=3.1 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Foremost Farms - Appleton falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms - Appleton (178 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Foremost Farms - Appleton has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a lower 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
2020	3.9	2.8	7
2019	2.8	2.3	6
2018	4.7	3.6	9
2017	3.1	2.6	6

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Appleton

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 356 employers in Appleton, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Biery Cheese Company Louisville	LOUISVILLE, OH	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc	DALHART, TX	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bel Brands USA	BROOKINGS, SD	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BREWSTER CHEESE COMPANY	RUPERT, ID	3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Corporate Contractors, Inc. (CCI)	BELOIT	178 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Augusta WI Plant	AUGUSTA	178 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wisconsin	COLUMBUS	178 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Great Northern Corporation - Chippewa Falls	CHIPPEWA FALLS	178 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ThedaCare Regional Medical Center Appleton	Appleton	1,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton	Appleton	1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northern Operations	Appleton	1,321 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fox Valley Technical College (WI)	Appleton	1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR	Transportation, Maintenance, Purchasing	Watertown, NY	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bakery Nouveau - West Seattle	Seattle, WA	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rheinschmidt Tile & Marble	Burlington, IA	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Roses 456	Lexington, NC	3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mount Royal Towers	Birmingham, AL	178 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Carboline Company-Schuetz	St Louis, MO	178 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Home Office	St Louis, MO	178 FTE
NAT-SIZE	FormFactor San Jose	San Jose, CA	178 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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