Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Specialty Cheese Company Inc

Reeseville, WI · ~245 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Specialty Cheese Company Inc runs at 255% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Specialty Cheese Company Inc: 8.4 TCR = 255% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Specialty Cheese Company Inc safety composite

Specialty Cheese Company Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.78 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

−8.6

2016→2024

Specialty Cheese Company Inc injury rate improved

Specialty Cheese Company Inc's TCR fell 8.6 from 11.4 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.4 · 2017=12.4 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=11.1 · 2020=10.7 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 255% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #135/171
  • PHOTO Yancey's Fancy/Brick…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 117 inj
  • SIZE ~245 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yancey's Fancy/Brickhouse Road Factory (0.0 TCR gap)

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Specialty Cheese Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Specialty Cheese Company Inc averages 8.4 TCR (255% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Specialty Cheese Company Inc TCR series: 2016=11.4 · 2017=12.4 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=11.1 · 2020=10.7 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Specialty Cheese Company Inc falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #135 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Specialty Cheese Company Inc (245 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 Specialty Cheese Company Inc
Specialty Cheese Company Inc (245 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Specialty Cheese Company Inc has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu 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
2024 2.8 1.8 9 2 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.9 3.0 11 2 0
2020 10.7 8.5 17 8 0
2019 11.1 9.8 19 6 0
2018 15.2 14.7 28 4 0
2017 12.4 11.8 17 3 0
2016 11.4 11.4 16 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Reeseville

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 4 employers in Reeseville, 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 Yancey's Fancy/Brickhouse Road Factory 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Cheese Group - Manufacturing Facility 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maplebrook Farm Water Street 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freedom 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Genex Field 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE Royle Printing 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sharp Packaging by Pregis 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maysteel Industries LLC 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caine Warehousing, LTD. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest General Repair and Fabrication 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Welding and Manufacturing 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Clarity Output Solutions 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2236 - Phoenix 7th Street and Bell 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone RV Company - Plant 19 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Solid Surfaces NY Rochester 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE K-Five Construction Corporation 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Grinnell 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Virginia's Choice - Parkersburg 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE OMNI Highway 1 Facility 245 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.