Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms - Milan

Name: Foremost Farms - Milan Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Athens, WI · ~74 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Foremost Farms - Milan runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Foremost Farms - Milan: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms - Milan safety composite

Foremost Farms - Milan scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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 - Milan: 1.4 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.35× in 2020

Foremost Farms - Milan's TCR rose 2.6 from 1.4 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

DART 4.0 DART
RANK #10/171
PHOTO Ingredients - Drying…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingredients - Drying - Beaver UT (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Foremost Farms - Milan averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Foremost Farms - Milan TCR series: 2017=1.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Foremost Farms - Milan falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 89% 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 #10 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms - Milan (74 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Foremost Farms - Milan 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	4.0	4.0	3
2019	1.4	0.0	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	1.4	1.4	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Athens

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 6 employers in Athens, 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	Ingredients - Drying - Beaver UT	BEAVER, UT	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Gamay Foods Ingredients, LLC	NEW BERLIN, WI	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Beaver, UT	BEAVER, UT	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Miyoko's Kitchen	PETALUMA, CA	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Fun Company	NEW LISBON	74 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Summerset Marine Construction	WHITEWATER	74 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Klein-Dickert Milwaukee, Inc.	PEWAUKEE	74 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Black-Haak Heating, Inc.	GREENVILLE	74 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI)	Athens	78 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Miltrim Farms Inc.	Athens	63 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Janke General Contractors, Inc.	Athens	41 FTE
CITY-NEAR	S D Ellenbecker INC	Athens	41 FTE
NAT-TCR	Columbus, OH Store	Columbus, OH	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kernersville Tube Plant	Kernersville, NC	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Joy Global Underground Mining LLC- Meadow Lands	Houston, PA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Our Lady of Life	St. Louis, MO	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Schenker Inc. (Spirit-Tulsa)	Tulsa, OK	74 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NJ075 Milford (Corrugated Paper Group)	Milford, NJ	74 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ECOFLO, Inc.	Greensboro, NC	74 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lyford Motors LLC	Cortlandt Manor, NY	74 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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