Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown

Browntown, WI · ~100 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown safety composite

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown: 3.5 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2023

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown's TCR rose 1.5 from 3.5 in 2022 to 5.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #62/171
  • PHOTO Whitehall East
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Whitehall East (0.0 TCR gap)

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V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown averages 4.3 TCR (130% 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

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown TCR series: 2022=3.5 · 2023=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #62 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown (100 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown
V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown (100 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu 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
2023 5.1 5.1 5 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Browntown

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 Browntown, 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 Whitehall East 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laubscher Cheese Company 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese_South Gate 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Valley Cheese 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northern Area 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dawns Foods 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Niagara Bottling, LLC - Kenosha 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE PARRETT MFG., INC. 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Browntown Foundry 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grede Wisconsin Subsidiaries LLC Browntown 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grede Wisconsin Subsidiaries LLC 123 FTE
NAT-TCR Matrix Surfaces Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Progressive Building Systems, Ltd 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2276 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #0334 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kipling Service Center-172 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grass Valley MLS 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quikrete - Bwi 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highway Barricades and Services LLC 100 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.