Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Land O' lakes - Spencer

Spencer, WI · ~321 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Land O' lakes - Spencer runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Land O' lakes - Spencer: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Land O' lakes - Spencer safety composite

Land O' lakes - Spencer scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Land O' lakes - Spencer: 4.1 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2023

Land O' lakes - Spencer's TCR rose 2.5 from 4.1 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #76/171
  • PHOTO Emmi Roth USA - Plat…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~321 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Emmi Roth USA - Platteville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Land O' lakes - Spencer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Land O' lakes - Spencer averages 4.8 TCR (146% 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

Land O' lakes - Spencer TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2018=3.9 · 2023=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Land O' lakes - Spencer falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #76 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Land O' lakes - Spencer (321 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Land O' lakes - Spencer
Land O' lakes - Spencer (321 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Land O' lakes - Spencer 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 6.6 4.9 20 0 0
2018 3.9 2.3 11 1 0
2016 4.1 2.7 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Spencer

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 8 employers in Spencer, 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 Emmi Roth USA - Platteville 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lamagna Food Group, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doughty Valley Factory Store Office 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northern Engraving Corporation 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE 965 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Ridge Health, Inc. 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayo Clinic Health System-Northland (Barron) 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Land O Lakes Spencer 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR RAMROD INDUSTRIES LLC 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gordy's Spencer Foods, Inc 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR T & T Quality Cutting LLC 36 FTE
NAT-TCR Sharon High 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Widget 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Altoona, Pa - 070 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vidor 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #46 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Knochel Bros Inc 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bios Corporate Office 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plymouth Harbor 321 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, 2018, 2016. 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.