Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc.

Seymour, WI · ~51 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc.: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. safety composite

Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−8.8

2016→2019

Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. injury rate improved

Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc.'s TCR fell 8.8 from 8.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.8 · 2017=6.1 · 2018=2.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Seymour, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #58/171
  • PHOTO Crystal Farms
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crystal Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. averages 4.2 TCR (128% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2017=6.1 · 2018=2 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 59% 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 #58 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. (51 employees, TCR 4.2) 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, Seymour, Inc.
Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. (51 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2017 6.1 2.0 3 0 0
2016 8.8 3.5 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Seymour

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 19 employers in Seymour, 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 Crystal Farms 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Valley Cheese 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitehall East 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Biddick, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delafield 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.F. Tomasini Contractors, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraemer North America - Iowa - All Others 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seymour Community School District 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Shepherd Nursing Home 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Pallet Corp. 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR EGI Mechanical, Inc. 85 FTE
NAT-TCR MN,WHEATON - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wurtland Nursing and Rehab 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Savourys Good Earth Cuisine 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Allentown Reserve Power Distribution Center 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Foodliner-Diamond 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rule Steel Plant 7 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando Int. Airport 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menoken Pipe & Precast 51 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: 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.