Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Kerry Owen

Owen, WI · ~157 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kerry Owen runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kerry Owen: 4.0 TCR = 121% of Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kerry Owen safety composite

Kerry Owen scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−9.9

2020→2024

Kerry Owen injury rate improved

Kerry Owen's TCR fell 9.9 from 10.7 in 2020 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.7 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Owen, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #53/171
  • PHOTO BelGioioso Cheese - …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~157 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BelGioioso Cheese - Chase 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kerry Owen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kerry Owen averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kerry Owen TCR series: 2020=10.7 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Kerry Owen falls in its industry

377 Cheese products, imitation or establishments

Safer than 62% 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 #53 safest of 171 Cheese products, imitation or employers in Wisconsin.

Kerry Owen (157 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Kerry Owen
Kerry Owen (157 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Kerry Owen has more employees than the Cheese products, imitation or substitute 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
2024 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2023 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2022 3.5 2.3 6 0 0
2021 3.7 2.1 7 0 0
2020 10.7 8.7 15 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Owen

377 Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 3 employers in Owen, 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 BelGioioso Cheese - Chase 2 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leprino Foods Company Tracy, CA 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur - Weyauwega 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dairygold Inc 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Little Potato Company 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&H Pets, LLC 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE AFP advanced food products llc 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Country Dairy 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owen Plant 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanson Masonry & Concrete, LLC 37 FTE
NAT-TCR AC Hotel Austin Hill Country 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Comfort Group of Alabama 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Applewood Centers - Jones Campus 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mako Contracting, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Energy Recovery - San Leandro 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deli Source 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acousti Engineering Miami 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE De Nora Tech, LLC 157 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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