Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam

Beaver Dam, WI · ~231 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam safety composite

Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−2.3

2016→2023

Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam injury rate improved

Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam's TCR fell 2.3 from 3.3 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Beaver Dam, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #20/171
  • PHOTO Ingredients - Cheese…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~231 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingredients - Cheese - New Wilmington PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam averages 2.5 TCR (75% 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

Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 82% 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 #20 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam (231 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam
Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam (231 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam 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
2023 1.0 0.3 2 1 0
2022 3.7 1.8 5 5 0
2020 2.7 2.7 6 0 0
2019 3.1 3.1 7 0 0
2018 1.4 1.4 3 0 0
2017 2.2 1.3 5 0 0
2016 3.3 0.9 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Beaver Dam

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 59 employers in Beaver Dam, 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 Ingredients - Cheese - New Wilmington PA 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms - Lancaster 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Slippery Rock 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glanbia Twin Falls Cheese Plant 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE VJS Construction Services 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraemer Brothers 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE JVL 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manitowoc Tool & Manufacturing, LLC 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7039 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7039 645 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMC- Beaver Dam 615 FTE
CITY-NEAR BDCH 602 FTE
NAT-TCR International Wire - Hamilton Products 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bison Bag Company, INC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Raybro Electric Supplies (Pc5617) 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wurth Wood Group Tampa 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reinauer Transportation Company 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkhart in Plant 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commerce Park 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maryville 231 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 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.