Dairy cattle farming · Wisconsin

Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC

Kewaunee, WI · ~144 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC runs at 320% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy cattle farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC: 14.4 TCR = 320% of Dairy cattle farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC safety composite

Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

−4.5

2023→2024

Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC injury rate improved

Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC's TCR fell 4.5 from 16.6 in 2023 to 12.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=16.6 · 2024=12.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Kewaunee, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 320% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #32/33
  • PHOTO C & M RUCKS DAIRY, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C & M RUCKS DAIRY, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC averages 14.4 TCR (320% of the Dairy cattle farming BLS benchmark).

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

Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC TCR series: 2023=16.6 · 2024=12.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC falls in its industry

530 Dairy cattle farming establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 33 Dairy cattle farming employers in Wisconsin.

Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC (144 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC
Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC (144 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC has more employees than the Dairy cattle farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2024 12.2 10.4 21 0 0
2023 16.6 12.7 25 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · WI · Kewaunee

530 Dairy cattle farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 11 employers in Kewaunee, 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 C & M RUCKS DAIRY, INC. 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scalia Farms 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rio Blanco, LLC 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pires Dairy 1 & 2 14.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE McKay Nursery Company 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dufeck Manufacturing Company 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheridan Random Lake 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riverside Machine & Engineering 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kewaunee Fabrications 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pagel's Ponderosa Dairy LLC 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kewaunee Health Services 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR KEWAUNEE 76 FTE
NAT-TCR Briarwood Farms 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sharp Auto Parts 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR North Freeze Dry 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Resorts World Casino NYC 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hamel Builders Inc. 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Coating & Laminating 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michael's Finer Meats and Seafood, LLC 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE JAT of Fort Wayne Inc. 144 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.