Frozen fruit and vegetable processing · Wisconsin

Nortera Foods Fairwater

Name: Nortera Foods Fairwater Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Fairwater, WI · ~105 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nortera Foods Fairwater runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Frozen fruit and vegetable processing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nortera Foods Fairwater: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Frozen fruit and vegetable processing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nortera Foods Fairwater safety composite

Nortera Foods Fairwater scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

2023→2024

Nortera Foods Fairwater injury rate improved

Nortera Foods Fairwater's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.7 in 2023 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.7 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311411 · Fairwater, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

DART 1.4 DART
RANK #2/13
PHOTO Peterson Farms
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Peterson Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kerr Concentra

1.6
Lakeside Foods

1.6
STAPLETON-SPEN

1.6
This site

1.5
Peterson Farms

1.5

What this shows Nortera Foods Fairwater averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Frozen fruit and vegetable processing BLS benchmark).

Nortera Foods Fairwater TCR series: 2023=1.7 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Nortera Foods Fairwater falls in its industry

224 Frozen fruit and vegetable pro establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 13 Frozen fruit and vegetable pro employers in Wisconsin.

Nortera Foods Fairwater (105 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Nortera Foods Fairwater has fewer employees than the Frozen fruit and vegetable processing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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	1.4	1.4	2	0	0
2023	1.7	0.6	2	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311411 · WI · Fairwater

224 Frozen fruit and vegetable processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Peterson Farms	SHELBY, MI	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kerr Concentrates - Oxnard Facility	OXNARD, CA	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lakeside Foods Manitowoc Distribution Center	MANITOWOC, WI	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	STAPLETON-SPENCE PACKING CO	GRIDLEY, CA	1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Koppers KRS Field Services	MADISON	105 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ahern Menomonie (NW)	MENOMONIE	105 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Horner Plumbing Co., INC.	PEWAUKEE	105 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Precision Coating	RHINELANDER	105 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bonduelle USA	Fairwater	149 FTE
NAT-TCR	STR0281	Spanish Fort, AL	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	STR0149	Orange Park, FL	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	STR0044	Carrollton, GA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Elkhart IN	Elkhart, IN	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Heathwood Assisted Living at Williamsville	Williamsville, NY	105 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Krier & Blain Inc.	Sioux Falls, SD	105 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Econolite Systems, Inc.	Anaheim, CA	105 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cub Foods Brookdale - 5510	Brooklyn Center, MN	105 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. 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.