Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Jim Falls

Jim Falls, WI · ~131 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jim Falls runs at 368% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Jim Falls: 12.1 TCR = 368% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jim Falls safety composite

Jim Falls scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Jim Falls: 8.1 → 12.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Jim Falls's TCR rose 4.5 from 8.1 in 2019 to 12.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Jim Falls, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 368% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #162/171
  • PHOTO BelGioioso Cheese - …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 96 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BelGioioso Cheese - Langes Corners (0.2 TCR gap)

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Jim Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jim Falls averages 12.1 TCR (368% 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

Jim Falls TCR series: 2019=8.1 · 2020=9 · 2021=14.6 · 2022=11.7 · 2023=16.8 · 2024=12.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Jim Falls falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #162 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Jim Falls (131 employees, TCR 12.1) 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 Jim Falls
Jim Falls (131 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Jim Falls has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher 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 12.6 9.8 18 0 0
2023 16.8 16.8 23 0 0
2022 11.7 10.8 14 0 0
2021 14.6 13.8 18 1 0
2020 9.0 8.4 13 1 0
2019 8.1 6.6 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Jim Falls

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 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 BelGioioso Cheese - Langes Corners 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Grove Warehousing 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Cheese Factory, Inc 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Biazzo 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Kraemer Company 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riverside Foods, Inc. 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oh Snap! Pickling Co., LLC 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foremost Farms USA (Richland Center, WI) 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Associate Milk Producers Inc (Jim Falls) 139 FTE
NAT-TCR Southwestern Virginia Gas Company 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TXD074 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MNM013 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chinburg Builders, Inc. 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belmont Village Geneva Road 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gull Road Justice Complex 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niagara Bottling, LLC - Louisville 131 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.