Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms - Clayton

Name: Foremost Farms - Clayton Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Clayton, WI · ~71 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Foremost Farms - Clayton runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Foremost Farms - Clayton: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms - Clayton safety composite

Foremost Farms - Clayton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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 - Clayton: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2020

Foremost Farms - Clayton's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Clayton, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

DART 1.3 DART
RANK #14/171
PHOTO Gamay Food Ingredien…
BOOK 5y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gamay Food Ingredients LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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057-PL001

1.8
Foremost Farms

1.8

What this shows Foremost Farms - Clayton averages 1.9 TCR (56% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Foremost Farms - Clayton TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Foremost Farms - Clayton falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms - Clayton (71 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Foremost Farms - Clayton 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
2020	1.3	1.3	1
2019	2.5	1.3	2
2018	2.7	1.3	2
2017	2.7	2.7	2
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Clayton

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 3 employers in Clayton, 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	Gamay Food Ingredients LLC	NEW BERLIN, WI	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Leprino Foods Company	LEMOORE, CA	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	057-PL001	ROCHESTER, MN	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Foremost Farms USA (Richland Center, WI)	RICHLAND CENTER, WI	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Renk Seed Company	SUN PRAIRIE	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Integrated Process Engineers & Constructors, Inc.	FORT ATKINSON	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Samuels Group, Inc.	WAUSAU	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rural Masonry Co Inc	MADISON	71 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI)	Clayton	75 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Berghammer Builders Inc.	Clayton	20 FTE
NAT-TCR	Portland PO	Portland, OR	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Garrettsville, OH, USA	Garrettsville, OH	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kincaid Generation LLC	Kincaid, IL	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Michigan Cat Lansing	Lansing, MI	1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Community Support Services	Cambridge, MN	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Ashford on Broad	Whitehall, OH	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The New York Blower Company / Leitchfield	Leitchfield, KY	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Parsec Miami	Cincinnati, OH	71 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.