Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms - Plover

Plover, WI · ~68 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foremost Farms - Plover runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Foremost Farms - Plover: 2.6 TCR = 78% of Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms - Plover safety composite

Foremost Farms - Plover scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 - Plover: 0.0 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2020

Foremost Farms - Plover's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Plover, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 78% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #13/39
  • PHOTO Milk Specialties Glo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Milk Specialties Global Visalia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foremost Farms - Plover in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foremost Farms - Plover averages 2.6 TCR (78% of the Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Foremost Farms - Plover TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Foremost Farms - Plover falls in its industry

185 Whey, condensed, dried, evapor establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 39 Whey, condensed, dried, evapor employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms - Plover (68 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Foremost Farms - Plover
Foremost Farms - Plover (68 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Foremost Farms - Plover has fewer employees than the Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2018 4.5 3.0 3 0 0
2017 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · WI · Plover

185 Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 57 employers in Plover, 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 Milk Specialties Global Visalia 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Artesia Processing Plant 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Zurich, IL 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingredients - Drying - Goshen IN 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE R Braun Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE R Braun Inc 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Metal Tech. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid City Corporation 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1828 490 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1828 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monogram Appetizers Moore Road 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monogram Appetizers, LLC - MR 329 FTE
NAT-TCR Summit Home Care 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairbury 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nazarath 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HDBA Midwest City (BSRO) 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southwood Forest Products 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stockton H.O. Shoreline 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trilogy Home Healthcare-West Palm Beach Corporate 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Columns Nursing Center 68 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.