Cheese merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc.

Wausau, WI · ~376 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc. runs at 209% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc.: 4.6 TCR = 209% of Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc. safety composite

Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

−1.9

2016→2024

Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc. injury rate improved

Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.9 from 4.5 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2017=3.0 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=13.1 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Wausau, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 209% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #9/20
  • PHOTO Meadow Gold Billings…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 98 inj
  • SIZE ~376 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meadow Gold Billings - Billings - Sugar Ave (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, 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 Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc. averages 4.6 TCR (209% of the Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=3 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=13.1 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.2

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

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 20 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers in Wisconsin.

Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc. (376 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc.
Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc. (376 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc. has more employees than the Cheese merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 2.5 1.5 12 0 0
2023 3.5 1.8 16 0 0
2022 3.8 2.6 19 1 0
2021 4.6 4.4 22 1 0
2019 13.1 13.1 8 0 0
2018 1.7 1.0 4 1 0
2017 3.0 2.5 7 0 0
2016 4.5 3.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · WI · Wausau

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 153 employers in Wausau, 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 Meadow Gold Billings - Billings - Sugar Ave 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING SOUTH - CHATANOOGA TN 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hiland Dairy Foods, LLC - OKC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - HOUSTON TX 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1176 376 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1515 376 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ardagh Glass Inc Burlington 377 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Master Lock Company 375 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Wausau Hospital 2,551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Inc 1,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Clinic Inc. 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork Co., Inc. 900 FTE
NAT-TCR Todt Hill 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Electrical Contractors Klamath Falls 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jamestown Container Corporation, Cattaraugus Container Division 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Kismet 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kei-Ai Los Angeles Healthcare Center 376 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) 376 FTE
NAT-SIZE HVA - Central 376 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pace Runners Inc 376 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, 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.