Cheese Manufacturing · Wisconsin

R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake

Elkhart Lake, WI · ~92 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cheese Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake: 0.7 TCR = 20% of Cheese Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake safety composite

R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake: 0.0 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.71× in 2021

R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Elkhart Lake, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 20% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #2/171
  • PHOTO Saputo Lincolnshire
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saputo Lincolnshire (0.0 TCR gap)

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R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake averages 0.7 TCR (20% of the Cheese Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake falls in its industry

377 Cheese Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 98% 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 #2 safest of 171 Cheese Manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake (92 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake
R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake (92 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake has fewer employees than the Cheese Manufacturing 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
2021 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2020 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Elkhart Lake

377 Cheese Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 10 employers in Elkhart Lake, 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 Saputo Lincolnshire 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Dalbo MN 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR K177-M001 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leprino Foods Company, Denver 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE La Macchia Group, LLC 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE James Peterson Sons, Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kuhlman Incorporated 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bremer Manufacturing Company, Inc. 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Lake 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5935_12921 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR KEES Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-TCR Corporate 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Park Urban Center 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Burling Builders, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR LANXESS East Hanover 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Douron - Headquarters 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit City Nursing and Rehabilitation 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Melling Engineered Aluminum Castings 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Indy Containerboard Hartford City Mill 92 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.