Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses · Wisconsin

Grinds - Milwaukee WI

Milwaukee, WI · ~241 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grinds - Milwaukee WI runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade B.

Grinds - Milwaukee WI: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grinds - Milwaukee WI safety composite

Grinds - Milwaukee WI scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.04 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2018→2022

Grinds - Milwaukee WI injury rate improved

Grinds - Milwaukee WI's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.5 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.5 · 2019=1.1 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Milwaukee, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #16/52
  • PHOTO Ohio Proteins
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~241 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ohio Proteins (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grinds - Milwaukee WI in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grinds - Milwaukee WI averages 2.6 TCR (80% of the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Grinds - Milwaukee WI TCR series: 2018=3.5 · 2019=1.1 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Grinds - Milwaukee WI falls in its industry

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 52 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce employers in Wisconsin.

Grinds - Milwaukee WI (241 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Grinds - Milwaukee WI
Grinds - Milwaukee WI (241 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Grinds - Milwaukee WI has more employees than the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 2.5 2.0 5 1 0
2021 3.5 0.9 4 4 0
2019 1.1 0.8 2 1 0
2018 3.5 2.3 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · WI · Milwaukee

613 Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 980 employers in Milwaukee, 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 Ohio Proteins 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Oscar Mayer 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Standard Meat Company-Saginaw 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City Sausage Company 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silver Spring Foods, Inc. 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schoeneck Containers - New Berlin 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schoeneck Containers Inc. 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Global Technology Center 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 7,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR FROEDTERT HOSPITAL 7,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milwaukee Hospital 3,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital - Milw Campus 2,851 FTE
NAT-TCR Diamond Hill Plywood-Greenville 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wireless - Bellingham 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Thermo King Dallas Convoy Servicing 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 981 - Colma 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omaha Steaks F St 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cove Haven Resort 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-ASM-OR 241 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.