Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · Wisconsin

West Main

Plymouth, WI · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

West Main runs at 271% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

West Main: 8.9 TCR = 271% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Main safety composite

West Main scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−6.9

2016→2021

West Main injury rate improved

West Main's TCR fell 6.9 from 12.3 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.3 · 2017=11.4 · 2019=10.8 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Plymouth, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 271% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #141/171
  • PHOTO AFP Clear Lake
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AFP Clear Lake (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Wisconsin employers → · Look up another →

West Main in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Main averages 8.9 TCR (271% of the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

West Main TCR series: 2016=12.3 · 2017=11.4 · 2019=10.8 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where West Main falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #141 safest of 171 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Wisconsin.

West Main (48 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 West Main
West Main (48 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

West Main has fewer employees than the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), 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
2021 5.4 5.4 3 0 0
2020 4.8 4.8 3 0 0
2019 10.8 9.3 7 0 0
2017 11.4 9.7 7 0 0
2016 12.3 8.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Plymouth

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 52 employers in Plymouth, 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 AFP Clear Lake 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Cloud 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bongards Creameries Perham 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese_Waupun 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spring Green 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Sires Inc Westby 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Sires, Inc - Wisconsin 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custer 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plymouth 996 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manufacturing : Plymouth 980 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masters Gallery Foods, Inc - Plymouth 679 FTE
CITY-NEAR MASTERS GALLERY FOODS, INC. 608 FTE
NAT-TCR Touchmark in the West Hills LLC 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Terrace Ridge Assisted Living 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Pleasant Hill 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZDKN 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avantara Salem 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stanley Access Technologies Mount Comfort 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE NBC Phoenix 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanford Store 48 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, 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.