Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms - Chilton

Chilton, WI · ~46 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foremost Farms - Chilton runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Foremost Farms - Chilton: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms - Chilton safety composite

Foremost Farms - Chilton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Foremost Farms - Chilton held a steady TCR band

Foremost Farms - Chilton's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.5 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.5 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #44/171
  • PHOTO Agropur Inc. - Le Su…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foremost Farms - Chilton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foremost Farms - Chilton averages 3.7 TCR (112% 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

Foremost Farms - Chilton TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Foremost Farms - Chilton falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 66% 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 #44 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms - Chilton (46 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 Foremost Farms - Chilton
Foremost Farms - Chilton (46 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Foremost Farms - Chilton has fewer 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2020 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2018 5.7 3.8 3 0 0
2017 3.5 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Chilton

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 25 employers in Chilton, 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 Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur Jerome 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marathon Cheese Booneville 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bel Brands USA 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmland Management Services - Wisconsin 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baraboo Operations 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schuh General Construction 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holtz Builders, Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR WC Chilton 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Worthington Cylinders Chilton 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaytee 247 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2509 246 FTE
NAT-TCR McCarthy-Castle Joint Venture, Tomahawk Creek WWTF 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Traverse Container 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR FBG Service Corporation Lincoln 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gary Yard 307 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Milton Distribution Center / Drop Site - ABARTA Coca-Cola Beverages 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE RCN Telecom Services , LLC - Havertown PA 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cazier Excavating, Inc. 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cayuga Operating Company LLC 46 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.