Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses · Wisconsin

Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant

Milwaukee, WI · ~243 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant runs at 282% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant: 9.3 TCR = 282% of Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant safety composite

Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant: 8.4 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2022

Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant's TCR rose 4.4 from 8.4 in 2019 to 12.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Milwaukee, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 282% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #47/52
  • PHOTO Council Bluffs Prepa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 85 inj
  • SIZE ~243 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Council Bluffs Prepared (0.0 TCR gap)

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Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant averages 9.3 TCR (282% of the Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant TCR series: 2019=8.4 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=12.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant falls in its industry

613 Sausage and similar cased prod establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #47 safest of 52 Sausage and similar cased prod employers in Wisconsin.

Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant (243 employees, TCR 9.3) 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 Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant
Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant (243 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Klement Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant has more employees than the Sausage and similar cased products made median and a higher 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 12.8 10.9 27 6 0
2021 9.7 7.6 23 4 0
2020 6.3 5.0 17 2 0
2019 8.4 7.3 18 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · WI · Milwaukee

613 Sausage and similar cased products 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 Council Bluffs Prepared 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Euro Foods Inc dba Citterio USA 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1239 - MORRIS IL MEAT PLANT 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omaha NE Premium Ground Beef 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Martin Petersen Company, Inc. 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE WSEL - Butler 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-States Aluminum 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lapham Hickey Steel Corp 243 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 Hayward Construction Group, LLC 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Guilford Town Hall 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR KLS Doors, LLC COX 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JESCO 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE JM Oliver Inc 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty Packaging - Golden Valley, MN 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Analog Devices Hillview Fab 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE JBR Inc, dba SFBGC, dba RFC 243 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.