Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · Wisconsin

Freedom

Appleton, WI · ~186 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freedom runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Freedom: 8.4 TCR = 254% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freedom safety composite

Freedom scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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)
F 8.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−5.1

2016→2019

Freedom injury rate improved

Freedom's TCR fell 5.1 from 8.3 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.3 · 2017=12.4 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Appleton, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 254% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #134/171
  • PHOTO Maplebrook Farm Wate…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Maplebrook Farm Water Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freedom in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freedom averages 8.4 TCR (254% of the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Freedom TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=12.4 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Freedom falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #134 safest of 171 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Wisconsin.

Freedom (186 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 Freedom
Freedom (186 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Freedom has more employees than the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), median and a higher 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
2019 3.2 0.0 7 0 0
2018 9.6 0.5 21 0 0
2017 12.4 1.9 26 0 0
2016 8.3 2.2 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Appleton

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 356 employers in Appleton, 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 Maplebrook Farm Water Street 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yancey's Fancy/Brickhouse Road Factory 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Cheese Company Inc 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luana 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cost of Wisconsin, Inc. 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernatello's Pizza, Inc 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE RI-East 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kleen Test Products - Moore Road 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center Appleton 1,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Operations 1,321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fox Valley Technical College (WI) 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR Commercial Tree Care 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Temple University New Library 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LakePoint of Wichita 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency House 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sansum Clinic Pesetas 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sansum Clinic Pueblo 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCI-Waukegan Facility 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE SWM/Blauer 186 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.