Cheese Manufacturing · Wisconsin

Manufacturing : Kiel

Kiel, WI · ~579 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Manufacturing : Kiel runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Manufacturing : Kiel: 6.1 TCR = 185% of Cheese Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Manufacturing : Kiel safety composite

Manufacturing : Kiel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

2016→2021

Manufacturing : Kiel injury rate improved

Manufacturing : Kiel's TCR fell 0.4 from 6.5 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2017=6.4 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #100/171
  • PHOTO Central Valley Cheese
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 166 inj
  • SIZE ~579 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Valley Cheese (0.0 TCR gap)

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Manufacturing : Kiel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Manufacturing : Kiel averages 6.1 TCR (185% of the Cheese Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Manufacturing : Kiel TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2017=6.4 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Manufacturing : Kiel falls in its industry

377 Cheese Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #100 safest of 171 Cheese Manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Manufacturing : Kiel (579 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Manufacturing : Kiel
Manufacturing : Kiel (579 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Manufacturing : Kiel has more employees than the Cheese Manufacturing 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 6.1 4.4 26 3 0
2020 6.5 6.1 25 7 0
2019 6.4 5.6 32 1 0
2018 4.6 4.4 24 1 0
2017 6.4 5.0 30 2 0
2016 6.5 4.8 29 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Kiel

377 Cheese Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 15 employers in Kiel, 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 Central Valley Cheese 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nasonville Dairy Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mullins Cheese INC #1 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ledgeview 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agrace Hospice/Dane County 579 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lunda Construction 578 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shopko Corporate Office #900 (Shopko General Office) 580 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milwaukee Sportservice, Inc. 580 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amerequip Kiel 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kiel, WI Plant 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vollrath Company LLC, Kiel 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kiel 170 FTE
NAT-TCR OR-Salem RC 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Propipe Technologies, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington Building & Supply Co. Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Welform Electrodes, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZSWN 579 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZOLA 579 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4028-ARW01 579 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Foods Raleigh Division 579 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.