Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Kraft Heinz Wausau

Wausau, WI · ~210 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kraft Heinz Wausau runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kraft Heinz Wausau: 5.4 TCR = 162% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kraft Heinz Wausau safety composite

Kraft Heinz Wausau scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−0.4

2020→2021

Kraft Heinz Wausau injury rate improved

Kraft Heinz Wausau's TCR fell 0.4 from 5.6 in 2020 to 5.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.6 · 2021=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 162% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #85/171
  • PHOTO Brewster Cheese - St…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~210 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brewster Cheese - Stockton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kraft Heinz Wausau in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kraft Heinz Wausau averages 5.4 TCR (162% 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 Wausau TCR series: 2020=5.6 · 2021=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kraft Heinz Wausau falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #85 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Kraft Heinz Wausau (210 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Wausau
Kraft Heinz Wausau (210 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Kraft Heinz Wausau has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher 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
2021 5.2 3.0 7 5 0
2020 5.6 1.6 5 9 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Brewster Cheese - Stockton 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Betin Inc - Belmont 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Farms Dairy - Rochester 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ahern Milwaukee 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernatellos Pizza- Sales Eau Claire 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mullins Cheese INC #1 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inland Label and Marketing Services, LLC - Airport Rd. 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Wausau Hospital 2,551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Inc 1,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Clinic Inc. 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork Co., Inc. 900 FTE
NAT-TCR Kittanning Care Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Computer Protection Technology, Inc 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DPN 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Univ of SC Beaufort 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nortek Global HVAC Dyersburg 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midway Distribution Center (DC2) 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0206 - Nesconset Ny Whse 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Korona Candles Inc. 210 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: 2021, 2020. 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.