Bag opening, filling, and closing machines manufacturing · Wisconsin

Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt

Germantown, WI · ~66 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bag opening, filling, and closing machines manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Bag opening, filling, and closing machines manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt safety composite

Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−3.8

2016→2023

Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt injury rate improved

Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt's TCR fell 3.8 from 6.2 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.2 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333993 · Germantown, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #19/28
  • PHOTO Benchmark Automation…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Benchmark Automation, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Wisconsin employers → · Look up another →

Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the Bag opening, filling, and closing machines manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt falls in its industry

269 Bag opening, filling, and clos establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 28 Bag opening, filling, and clos employers in Wisconsin.

Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt (66 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt
Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt (66 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Gehl Foods, LLC. - Freistadt has more employees than the Bag opening, filling, and closing machin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2023 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2022 2.6 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2019 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.7 4.3 3 1 0
2016 6.2 4.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333993 · WI · Germantown

269 Bag opening, filling, and closing machines manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 112 employers in Germantown, 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 Benchmark Automation, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Airport 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR E-Pak Machinery Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midlands Packaging 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Okray Family Farms, Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tidy View Dairy, LLC 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wysocki Produce Farm - Paramount Ag 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3757_10365 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellsworth Corporation - Germantown, Wisconsin 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1515 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1515 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weimer Bearing & Transmission, Inc. 353 FTE
NAT-TCR Fremont Millwork Co. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Tavares 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleveland-Cliffs Coatesville 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR WakeMed Apex Healthplex 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greco Aluminum Railings USA, Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sordoni Construction Company 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monarch Construction Co 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlie C's IGA #820 66 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.