Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI)

Name: Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI) Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Athens, WI · ~78 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI) 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 USA (Milan, WI): 3.4 TCR = 102% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI) safety composite

Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% 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).

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−3.7

2021→2022

Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI) injury rate improved

Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI)'s TCR fell 3.7 from 5.2 in 2021 to 1.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.2 · 2022=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #34/171
PHOTO Lemoore West Plant
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lemoore West Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.4
Leprino Foods

3.4
Foremost Farms

3.4
Saputo Cheese_

3.4

What this shows Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI) averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI) TCR series: 2021=5.2 · 2022=1.5 · BLS 3.3

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

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI) (78 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 USA (Milan, 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
2022	1.5	0.0	1	0	0
2021	5.2	5.2	4	0	0

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	Lemoore West Plant	LEMOORE, CA	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Leprino Foods - FTM	FORT MORGAN, CO	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Foremost Farms - Richland Center	RICHLAND CENTER, WI	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Saputo Cheese_Green Bay	GREEN BAY, WI	3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	SIEMERS HOLSTEIN FARM INC	NEWTON	78 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Larson Acres, Inc.	EVANSVILLE	78 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Michels Materials- Pits and Quarries- Brownsville	BROWNSVILLE	78 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Samuels Group - Wisconsin	WAUSAU	78 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Foremost Farms - Milan	Athens	74 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	STIHL Northwest	Centralia, WA	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum	Boston, MA	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Koch Topeka Parts	Topeka, KS	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Food City Store #249	Fort Oglethorpe, GA	3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Waukegan Station	Waukegan, IL	78 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tops #720	Greenville, NY	78 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tops #587	Rome, NY	78 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cadence at Mint Hill	Scottsdale, AZ	78 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: 2022, 2021. 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.