Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

LaClare Creamery, LLC

Malone, WI · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LaClare Creamery, LLC runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

LaClare Creamery, LLC: 5.8 TCR = 176% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LaClare Creamery, LLC safety composite

LaClare Creamery, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−1.7

2022→2024

LaClare Creamery, LLC injury rate improved

LaClare Creamery, LLC's TCR fell 1.7 from 8.0 in 2022 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.0 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Malone, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #91/171
  • PHOTO Prairie Farms Dairy …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery (0.0 TCR gap)

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LaClare Creamery, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LaClare Creamery, LLC averages 5.8 TCR (176% 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

LaClare Creamery, LLC TCR series: 2022=8 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where LaClare Creamery, LLC falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #91 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

LaClare Creamery, LLC (70 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 LaClare Creamery, LLC
LaClare Creamery, LLC (70 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

LaClare Creamery, LLC has fewer 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
2024 6.3 6.3 4 1 0
2023 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2022 8.0 6.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Malone

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 4 employers in Malone, 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 Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PINE RIVER PRE-PACK, INC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing : Hilbert 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - Vine Road 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE La Crosse Service Center-9N 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friendship 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Paving- Brownsville 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE QBC, LLC 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaClare Family Creamery, LLC 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Redtail Ridge Dairy, LLC 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Helmer Electric, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Aiken County Detention Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Beck & Hofer Construction 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BR16 Chico 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Connecticut Gas 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harvard Services Group Inc of North Carolina 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Tribal Health Project 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridgeport Elementary 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building#3- Drummond Company, Inc. 70 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.