Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Kiel

Kiel, WI · ~170 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kiel runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kiel: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kiel safety composite

Kiel scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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)
C 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−2.0

2016→2024

Kiel injury rate improved

Kiel's TCR fell 2.0 from 6.8 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.8 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=3.5 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #48/171
  • PHOTO Great Lakes Cheese o…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kiel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kiel averages 3.9 TCR (117% 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

Kiel TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.5 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kiel falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #48 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Kiel (170 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Kiel
Kiel (170 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Kiel has more 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
2024 4.8 3.7 22 0 0
2023 3.4 2.5 16 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2020 7.5 5.0 3 0 0
2018 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.8 6.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Kiel

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 15 employers in Kiel, 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 Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hilbert 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mullins Cheese INC #2 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Foods Inc. 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whitehall East 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE I-K-I Manufacturing 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tigre USA - Janesville 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manufacturing : Kiel 579 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amerequip Kiel 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kiel, WI Plant 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vollrath Company LLC, Kiel 222 FTE
NAT-TCR Solvay Glass of CNY, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ncsyl - Sylva 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vabri - Bristol 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR International Identification, Inc 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maplewood Beverage Packers, LLC 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilbert Plastics Services 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterproofing Associates, Inc. 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Star Exhibits 170 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.