Cheese spreads manufacturing · Wisconsin

Lactalis USA Inc.

Merrill, WI · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lactalis USA Inc. runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese spreads manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lactalis USA Inc.: 4.7 TCR = 144% of Cheese spreads manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lactalis USA Inc. safety composite

Lactalis USA Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Lactalis USA Inc.: 2.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2020

Lactalis USA Inc.'s TCR rose 4.1 from 2.0 in 2018 to 6.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 144% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #73/171
  • PHOTO Ingredients - Cheese…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

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

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Lactalis USA Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lactalis USA Inc. averages 4.7 TCR (144% of the Cheese spreads manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Lactalis USA Inc. TCR series: 2018=2 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Lactalis USA Inc. falls in its industry

377 Cheese spreads manufacturing establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #73 safest of 171 Cheese spreads manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Lactalis USA Inc. (56 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 Lactalis USA Inc.
Lactalis USA Inc. (56 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Lactalis USA Inc. has fewer employees than the Cheese spreads manufacturing 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
2020 6.0 4.0 3 0 0
2019 6.2 2.1 3 0 0
2018 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Merrill

377 Cheese spreads manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 49 employers in Merrill, 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 - Hummelstown PA 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Logan plant 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wiskerchen Cheese Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MARATHON CHEESE CORPORATION 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pinnacle Dairy LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pulliam 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friendship Office 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bachmann Construction Co, Inc 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrill Area Public Schools 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1366 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1366 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill 200 FTE
NAT-TCR MRMC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kimberly Entertainment LLC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Denver Progressive 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonstegard Foods of Arkansas 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alpine Roofing Co., Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacobsson Engineering Construction, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berlin Village Gift Barn 56 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.