Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc.

La Crosse, WI · ~389 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc.: 3.9 TCR = 118% of Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. safety composite

Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 4.2 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.2 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=4.2 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · La Crosse, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 118% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #49/171
  • PHOTO Hilbert
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 115 inj
  • SIZE ~389 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hilbert (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. averages 3.9 TCR (118% of the Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=4 · 2019=4.2 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. falls in its industry

377 Cheese products, imitation or establishments

Safer than 63% 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 #49 safest of 171 Cheese products, imitation or employers in Wisconsin.

Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. (389 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc.
Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. (389 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. has more employees than the Cheese products, imitation or substitute median and a lower 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 3.9 2.2 16 0 0
2023 3.0 1.6 11 0 0
2022 3.3 3.0 21 0 0
2019 4.2 3.2 16 0 0
2018 4.0 2.4 15 0 0
2017 4.8 1.8 19 0 0
2016 4.2 1.9 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · La Crosse

377 Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 188 employers in La Crosse, 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 Hilbert 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kiel 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms USA (Lancaster, WI) 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE North America : Hawkins 389 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1931 389 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kwik Trip CT Perishable Delivery 867 389 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SWI1 389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center 3,712 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare Inc 2,329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gundersen Clinic, Ltd. 2,127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gundersen - La Crosse Clinic 1,739 FTE
NAT-TCR Avflight Services 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Scsu Retail 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 36L1 - EAN Holdings, LLC Hawaii Division 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #1667 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greenview Farming. Inc 389 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - KRB7 389 FTE
NAT-SIZE OR190 Toledo Paper 389 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercer Foods 389 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, 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.