Nationality specialty foods canning · Wisconsin

Ortega

Stoughton, WI · ~196 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ortega runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nationality specialty foods canning workplace, earning a grade D.

Ortega: 5.2 TCR = 158% of Nationality specialty foods canning BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ortega safety composite

Ortega scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Ortega: 3.6 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2018

Ortega's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.6 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311422 · Stoughton, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 158% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Beech-Nut Nutrition
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beech-Nut Nutrition (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ortega in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ortega averages 5.2 TCR (158% of the Nationality specialty foods canning BLS benchmark).

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

Ortega TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Ortega falls in its industry

67 Nationality specialty foods ca establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Nationality specialty foods ca employers in Wisconsin.

Ortega (196 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ortega
Ortega (196 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Ortega has more employees than the Nationality specialty foods canning median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2018 4.7 3.6 7 2 0
2017 7.3 4.7 11 3 0
2016 3.6 3.1 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311422 · WI · Stoughton

67 Nationality specialty foods canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 44 employers in Stoughton, 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 Beech-Nut Nutrition 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Soy Products 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teasdale Latin Foods (Atwater Location) 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills Hannibal 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Michels Marine a division of Michels Construction, Inc-WI-Lomira 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Radius Packaging 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phillips-Medisize-Eau Claire 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Metal Finishing Green Bay 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stoughton (Manf.) 662 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stoughton Trailers LLC Plant 6 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1176 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stoughton Hospital 364 FTE
NAT-TCR 2253-H4856 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Arlington) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ngl Water Solutions, LLC-C9 Grover 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ottawa 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Canton GSL 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE thyssenkrupp Industrial Services - Lafayette 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richmond Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Louis - 4350 Semple Avenue 196 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.