Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI)

Clayton, WI · ~75 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI) runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI): 4.6 TCR = 139% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI) safety composite

Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−5.1

2021→2024

Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI) injury rate improved

Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI)'s TCR fell 5.1 from 8.6 in 2021 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.6 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Clayton, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #69/171
  • PHOTO MWC, LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MWC, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI) averages 4.6 TCR (139% 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 USA (Clayton, WI) TCR series: 2021=8.6 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI) falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #69 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI) (75 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 USA (Clayton, WI)
Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI) (75 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI) 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
2024 3.5 2.3 3 0 0
2023 3.6 1.2 3 0 0
2022 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2021 8.6 4.3 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Clayton

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 3 employers in Clayton, 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 MWC, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arla Foods Hollandtown 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo-Levin 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chili, WI 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alma Plants 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington Office 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Wanasek Corporation 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wenger Construction, Inc. 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foremost Farms - Clayton 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berghammer Builders Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Ivex Protective Packaging, LLC Stolle Facility 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Beaming White LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RNJ Harvesting Inc 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tex tech industries inc 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Martin Sprocket & Gear GA 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITW Tomco 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yoder Industries, Inc. Needmore 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE LANXESS Corporation 75 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.