Cheese merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin, Inc

Plymouth, WI · ~561 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin, Inc runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin, Inc: 4.2 TCR = 190% of Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin, Inc safety composite

Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−1.8

2016→2023

Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin, Inc injury rate improved

Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin, Inc's TCR fell 1.8 from 5.7 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=3.4 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 190% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #6/20
  • PHOTO DFA DISTRIBUTING WES…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 166 inj
  • SIZE ~561 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - LAS VEGAS NV (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Cheese of 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 Wisconsin, Inc averages 4.2 TCR (190% 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 Wisconsin, Inc TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=3.4 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.8 · BLS 2.2

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

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #6 safest of 20 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers in Wisconsin.

Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin, Inc (561 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Wisconsin, Inc
Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin, Inc (561 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Great Lakes Cheese of 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
2023 3.8 3.2 23 0 0
2022 3.3 3.0 21 0 0
2021 6.6 6.1 38 1 0
2019 3.4 2.9 19 1 0
2018 2.9 2.4 16 1 0
2017 3.5 2.6 20 0 0
2016 5.7 4.4 29 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · WI · Plymouth

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 52 employers in Plymouth, 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 DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - LAS VEGAS NV 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oak Farms Houston - Waco 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Truvant Boscobel South 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABS Global - Deforest 561 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOUNTAIN HOME 561 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thilmany Mill 560 FTE
STATE-SIZE BELLIN HEALTH SYSTEMS-1000 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plymouth 996 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manufacturing : Plymouth 980 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masters Gallery Foods, Inc - Plymouth 679 FTE
CITY-NEAR MASTERS GALLERY FOODS, INC. 608 FTE
NAT-TCR Trimco Millwork SLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MJB Electric Service Corp. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Equipment Depot California, Inc. - Whittier 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rolfe Construction Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Becton Dickinson 561 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brooklyn Bedding 561 FTE
NAT-SIZE 120442-Peachtree Ga P&Dc 561 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charles Blalock & Sons, Inc. 561 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, 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.