Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms - Richland Center

Richland Center, WI · ~123 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foremost Farms - Richland Center runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Foremost Farms - Richland Center: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms - Richland Center safety composite

Foremost Farms - Richland Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2017→2020

Foremost Farms - Richland Center injury rate improved

Foremost Farms - Richland Center's TCR fell 2.3 from 4.7 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.7 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Richland Center, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #35/171
  • PHOTO Leprino Foods - FTM
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Leprino Foods - FTM (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foremost Farms - Richland Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foremost Farms - Richland Center averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Foremost Farms - Richland Center TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Foremost Farms - Richland Center falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms - Richland Center (123 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Foremost Farms - Richland Center
Foremost Farms - Richland Center (123 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Foremost Farms - Richland Center 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2020 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2019 4.9 0.8 6 0 0
2018 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2017 4.7 2.3 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Richland Center

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 29 employers in Richland Center, 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 Leprino Foods - FTM 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lemoore West Plant 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI) 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese_Green Bay 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Watertown 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cambria #108 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Foods Inc 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nasonville Dairy Inc. 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Richland Hospital 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Automation- Richland Center WI (RCH) 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1007 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1007 259 FTE
NAT-TCR ProSomnus Sleep Technologies 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Boulder Service Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Hood, TX 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Americom Technology, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schenker Inc. (P&G - West Branch) 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE SP Industries - Vineland 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raley's 405-Sacramento 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlisle Syntec - Senatobia 123 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.