Sauerkraut manufacturing · Wisconsin

GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek

Bear Creek, WI · ~121 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek runs at 351% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sauerkraut manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek: 11.6 TCR = 351% of Sauerkraut manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek safety composite

GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−5.5

2016→2022

GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek injury rate improved

GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek's TCR fell 5.5 from 11.2 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 21.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.2 · 2017=21.5 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=11.1 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Bear Creek, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 351% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #42/43
  • PHOTO SunRype Products (US…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 110 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SunRype Products (USA), Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek averages 11.6 TCR (351% of the Sauerkraut manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek TCR series: 2016=11.2 · 2017=21.5 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=11.1 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek falls in its industry

330 Sauerkraut manufacturing establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 43 Sauerkraut manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek (121 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek
GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek (121 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

GLK Foods, LLC Bear Creek has fewer employees than the Sauerkraut manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 5.7 1.6 7 0 0
2021 8.8 4.9 8 1 0
2020 11.1 5.9 17 0 0
2019 13.3 6.9 25 0 0
2018 9.5 6.8 14 0 0
2017 21.5 16.3 27 2 0
2016 11.2 9.3 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · WI · Bear Creek

330 Sauerkraut 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 SunRype Products (USA), Inc. 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Old Orchard Brands 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arcadia Farms dba Arcadia Beverage Company, LLC 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lodi Canning Company 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lindus Construction/Midwest Leafguard 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scott Construction Inc. 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trierweiler Construction Supply Co.,Inc. 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corcoran Glass & Paint inc. 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR W9834 Maple Road, Bear Creek, WI 54922 26 FTE
NAT-TCR HG657 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Luke's Monroe 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 438260-Wakefield Po 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 500 - Distribution Center - Ace Mart 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sea Life Park Hawaii 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Galveston Pier 10 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson Creek Senior Living 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diversicare of Ripley 121 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, 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.