Processed cheeses manufacturing · Wisconsin

Gilman Cheese

Gilman, WI · ~164 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gilman Cheese runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed cheeses manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Gilman Cheese: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Processed cheeses manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gilman Cheese safety composite

Gilman Cheese scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gilman Cheese: 1.0 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Gilman Cheese's TCR rose 5.4 from 1.0 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #99/171
  • PHOTO Bongards Creameries …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 59 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bongards Creameries South (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gilman Cheese in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gilman Cheese averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Processed cheeses manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gilman Cheese TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=5.4 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Gilman Cheese falls in its industry

377 Processed cheeses manufacturin establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #99 safest of 171 Processed cheeses manufacturin employers in Wisconsin.

Gilman Cheese (164 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Gilman Cheese
Gilman Cheese (164 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Gilman Cheese has more employees than the Processed cheeses manufacturing 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
2024 6.4 5.1 10 0 0
2023 8.5 6.5 13 0 0
2022 5.9 4.7 10 0 0
2021 9.1 8.7 19 1 0
2017 5.4 4.5 6 0 0
2016 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Gilman

377 Processed cheeses manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 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 Bongards Creameries South 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaClare Family Creamery, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Valley Cheese 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ahern Madison 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Refinery 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wisconsin 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premier Aluminum LLC 164 FTE
NAT-TCR Price Rite Store 208 Driving Park 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KTP Lexington 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St. David's Medical Center 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Page Hardware & Appliance Co. 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garden Park Nursing & Rehabilitation 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henderson 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ruppert Landscape - Gainesville 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springtree Rehabilitation and Health Care Center 164 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, 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.