Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses · Wisconsin

Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant

Milwaukee, WI · ~147 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant: 6.2 TCR = 187% of Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant safety composite

Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant: 5.8 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2018

Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant's TCR rose 1.9 from 5.8 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 187% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #37/52
  • PHOTO SugarCreek Packing -…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~147 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SugarCreek Packing - Muhlhauser (0.0 TCR gap)

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Klement's 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's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant averages 6.2 TCR (187% 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's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=5 · 2018=7.7 · BLS 3.3

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

613 Sausage and similar cased prod establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #37 safest of 52 Sausage and similar cased prod employers in Wisconsin.

Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant (147 employees, TCR 6.2) 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's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant
Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant (147 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Chase Plant has fewer 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
2018 7.7 7.7 13 0 0
2017 5.0 5.0 7 0 0
2016 5.8 5.4 13 0 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 SugarCreek Packing - Muhlhauser 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trim-Rite Food Corporation 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Longhini Sausage 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fair Oaks Foods 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CC&N 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE VPP Group, LLC 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asenzya Inc. 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE MC KAU 147 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 American Excavating Corp. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 1 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-828-Pottery Barn 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wendy's Store #274 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mill Hall 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Department of Insurance 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elizabeth Detention 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patrick Products, Inc. 147 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.