Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms - Lancaster

Name: Foremost Farms - Lancaster Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lancaster, WI · ~61 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Foremost Farms - Lancaster runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Foremost Farms - Lancaster: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms - Lancaster safety composite

Foremost Farms - Lancaster scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% 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).

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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 - Lancaster: 1.6 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2020

Foremost Farms - Lancaster's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.6 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

DART 1.6 DART
RANK #19/171
PHOTO Leprino Foods Roswell
BOOK 4y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Leprino Foods Roswell (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.4
Leprino Foods

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Schreiber Food

2.4
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2.3

What this shows Foremost Farms - Lancaster averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Foremost Farms - Lancaster TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Foremost Farms - Lancaster falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 82% 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 #19 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms - Lancaster (61 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Foremost Farms - Lancaster 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	3.1	1.6	2
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	4.9	3.3	3
2017	1.6	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Lancaster

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 18 employers in Lancaster, 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	Leprino Foods Roswell	ROSWELL, NM	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Schreiber Foods, Inc.	SMITHFIELD, UT	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam	BEAVER DAM, WI	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kraft Heinz Foods Company	WAUSAU, WI	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	LaCrosse - Commerce Street	LACROSSE	61 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Commonwealth Construction Corporation	FOND DU LAC	61 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Board Store Home Improvements, Inc.	LA CROSSE	61 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lakeview Construction, LLC	PLEASANT PRAIRIE	61 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bemis North America - Lancaster	Lancaster	188 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SKYLINE CORPORATION	Lancaster	133 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Southwest Opportunities Center	Lancaster	91 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LANCASTER HEALTH SERVICES	Lancaster	82 FTE
NAT-TCR	Arvada Service Center	Arvada, CO	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	NC316 Mt. Holly NC	Mt. Holly, NC	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Carver Elementary	Maplewood, MN	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Viracon	Statesboro, GA	2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Adopt A Highway Maintenance Corporation	Costa Mesa, CA	61 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Duffy School	West Hartford, CT	61 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Thompson Industrial Services, LLC, Division 32 Vogtle Office	Waynesboro, GA	61 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dorchester	Dorchester, NE	61 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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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.