Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Kemps Cedarburg Plant

Cedarburg, WI · ~153 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kemps Cedarburg Plant runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kemps Cedarburg Plant: 5.1 TCR = 154% of Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kemps Cedarburg Plant safety composite

Kemps Cedarburg Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Kemps Cedarburg Plant: 3.8 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2021

Kemps Cedarburg Plant's TCR rose 1.4 from 3.8 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Cedarburg, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 154% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #14/20
  • PHOTO First District Assoc…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First District Association (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kemps Cedarburg Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kemps Cedarburg Plant averages 5.1 TCR (154% of the Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kemps Cedarburg Plant TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=5 · 2021=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kemps Cedarburg Plant falls in its industry

457 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 20 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin employers in Wisconsin.

Kemps Cedarburg Plant (153 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kemps Cedarburg Plant
Kemps Cedarburg Plant (153 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Kemps Cedarburg Plant has more employees than the Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogen median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2021 5.2 2.6 8 0 0
2020 5.0 3.1 8 0 0
2019 6.4 4.5 10 0 0
2017 3.8 1.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · WI · Cedarburg

457 Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 29 employers in Cedarburg, 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 First District Association 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HP Hood - Winchester 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darigold - Portland 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HP Hood-Batavia 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hottmann Construction Company, Inc. 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE WI001 Green Bay Packerland SPG 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amcor Healthcare Packaging- New London 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fisher Barton Specialties, Inc. 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR DFA-KMP - CEDARBURG WI 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carlson Tool & Manufacturing Corp 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedarburg Office - 391 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weil Pump, A Wilo Company 91 FTE
NAT-TCR Metform LLC / Hot Formed Products 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LMC Spring 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethesda Health and Rehabilitation Center 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Transteck Inc. - Harrisburg 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Panama Transfer 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hospice by the Sea- Area 2 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE ONT - Ground Ops 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Touchmark on West Century LLC 153 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.