Butter manufacturing · Wisconsin

Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI)

Reedsburg, WI · ~58 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI) runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Butter manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI): 5.2 TCR = 157% of Butter manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI) safety composite

Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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 USA (Reedsburg, WI): 3.8 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2024

Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI)'s TCR rose 2.9 from 3.8 in 2021 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311512 · Reedsburg, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 157% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO EPICUREAN BUTTER
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EPICUREAN BUTTER (0.1 TCR gap)

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

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

TCR

What this shows Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI) averages 5.2 TCR (157% 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 USA (Reedsburg, WI) TCR series: 2021=3.8 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 3.3

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

32 Butter manufacturing establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #6 safest of 7 Butter manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI) (58 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 USA (Reedsburg, WI)
Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI) (58 employees, TCR 5.2) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI) has fewer employees than the Butter manufacturing median and a higher 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
2024 6.7 6.7 3 1 0
2023 6.7 1.7 4 0 0
2022 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2021 3.8 1.9 2 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 EPICUREAN BUTTER 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Point Dairy Products LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Point Dairy Products Nebraska 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newman 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hall's Calf Ranch 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bilfinger Green Bay 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Warrens LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE AHC AMC Sheboygan Cty 17080007 58 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 TreeHouse Foods, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sagepoint Senior Services 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fargo Nd 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Anchorage Rail 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Deringer Ney Inc 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE StairSupplies-Plant 1E, 1722 Eisenhower Dr. North 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landis Logistics 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sweet Memorial Nursing Home 58 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.