Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Kraft Heinz Foods Company

Name: Kraft Heinz Foods Company Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Wausau, WI · ~224 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Kraft Heinz Foods Company runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kraft Heinz Foods Company: 2.3 TCR = 71% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kraft Heinz Foods Company safety composite

Kraft Heinz Foods Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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).

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Kraft Heinz Foods Company: 1.5 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.19× in 2017

Kraft Heinz Foods Company's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.5 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

DART 0.5 DART
RANK #18/171
PHOTO Schreiber Foods, Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schreiber Foods, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.4
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2.4
This site

2.3
Leprino Foods

2.3
Cass City, MI

2.3

What this shows Kraft Heinz Foods Company averages 2.3 TCR (71% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Kraft Heinz Foods Company TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kraft Heinz Foods Company falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Kraft Heinz Foods Company (224 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Kraft Heinz Foods Company 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
2017	3.2	0.5	2	5	0
2016	1.5	1.5	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Wausau

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 153 employers in Wausau, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Schreiber Foods, Inc.	SMITHFIELD, UT	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Leprino Foods Greeley	GREELEY, CO	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cass City, MI	CASS CITY, MI	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Leprino Foods Roswell	ROSWELL, NM	2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Common Links Construction, LLC	BROOKFIELD	224 FTE
STATE-SIZE	A. L. Schutzman	WAUKESHA	224 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Red Cedar	MENOMONIE	224 FTE
STATE-SIZE	EAU CLAIRE WEST WI - 3011	EAU CLAIRE	224 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Aspirus Wausau Hospital	Wausau	2,551 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Aspirus Inc	Wausau	1,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Aspirus Clinic Inc.	Wausau	931 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork Co., Inc.	Wausau	900 FTE
NAT-TCR	Science and Technology Center	Carleton, MI	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	N and R of Republic LLC	Republic, MO	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	4017 Florida A&M	Tallahassee, FL	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	0252 - Apache Junction, Az	Apache Junction, AZ	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	CM Whitins	Whitinsville, MA	224 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lexington (Kylxo)	Lexington, KY	224 FTE
NAT-SIZE	New Castle (Dence)	New Castle, DE	224 FTE
NAT-SIZE	TX-01	Dallas, TX	224 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: 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.