Butter manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms - Reedsburg

Reedsburg, WI · ~53 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Foremost Farms - Reedsburg runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Butter manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Foremost Farms - Reedsburg: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Butter manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms - Reedsburg safety composite

Foremost Farms - Reedsburg scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

Foremost Farms - Reedsburg held a steady TCR band

Foremost Farms - Reedsburg's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.1 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2017=2.0 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311512 · Reedsburg, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Indianapolis IN Redd…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indianapolis IN Reddi Wip (0.1 TCR gap)

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Foremost Farms - Reedsburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foremost Farms - Reedsburg averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Butter manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Foremost Farms - Reedsburg TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=2 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Foremost Farms - Reedsburg falls in its industry

32 Butter manufacturing establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Butter manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms - Reedsburg (53 employees, TCR 1.9) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 23 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Foremost Farms - Reedsburg
Foremost Farms - Reedsburg (53 employees, TCR 1.9) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Foremost Farms - Reedsburg has fewer employees than the Butter manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2018 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2017 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311512 · WI · Reedsburg

32 Butter manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 30 employers in Reedsburg, 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 Indianapolis IN Reddi Wip 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2453-00060351-60351A 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA-KELLER-WINNESBORO TX 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Organic Valley Chaseburg Creamery 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coello & Associates, inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clearwing Systems Integration, LLC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robert J. Nickles, Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE NSI Electrical Contractors, Inc 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reedsburg 614 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reedsburg Area Medical Center Inc 607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grede 606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seats Incorporated 530 FTE
NAT-TCR A.S. King Plant 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Casa Linda CL 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Moreno Valley DorFab 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Owen Godley TX 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fred Emich Co, Inc., DBA Emich Chevrolet 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Webster Hill 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morrisville Steel Rd MU 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG004 53 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.