Cheese, cottage, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Westby Cooperative Creamery

Name: Westby Cooperative Creamery Workplace Safety Data
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Westby, WI · ~138 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Westby Cooperative Creamery runs at 297% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese, cottage, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Westby Cooperative Creamery: 9.8 TCR = 297% of Cheese, cottage, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Westby Cooperative Creamery safety composite

Westby Cooperative Creamery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−12.1

2017→2021

Westby Cooperative Creamery injury rate improved

Westby Cooperative Creamery's TCR fell 12.1 from 19.2 in 2017 to 7.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 19.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=19.2 · 2018=6.1 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Westby, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 297% of ind

DART 7.1 DART
RANK #19/20
PHOTO Byrne Dairy Fluid mi…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 47 inj
SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Byrne Dairy Fluid milk Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Byrne Dairy Fl

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9.8

What this shows Westby Cooperative Creamery averages 9.8 TCR (297% of the Cheese, cottage, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Westby Cooperative Creamery TCR series: 2017=19.2 · 2018=6.1 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Westby Cooperative Creamery falls in its industry

457 Cheese, cottage, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 20 Cheese, cottage, manufacturin employers in Wisconsin.

Westby Cooperative Creamery (138 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Westby Cooperative Creamery has fewer employees than the Cheese, cottage, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2021	7.1	7.1	9	0
2020	6.8	4.5	8	1
2018	6.1	4.1	7	2
2017	19.2	14.3	23	4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · WI · Westby

457 Cheese, cottage, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 9 employers in Westby, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Byrne Dairy Fluid milk Plant	SYRACUSE, NY	9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	6962-SWY-0045-0045-08409	COMMERCE, CA	9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Plainview Milk Products Cooperative - Hastings	HASTINGS, MN	9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Prairie Farms Dairy Fort Wayne	FORT WAYNE, IN	9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Pewaukee Customer Contact Center	WAUKESHA	138 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Century Fence Company	PEWAUKEE	138 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1	WHITEHALL	138 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AstenJohnson Appleton	APPLETON	138 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lacrosse Hardwood Flooring	Westby	71 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Select Sires, Inc - Wisconsin	Westby	48 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Select Sires Inc Westby	Westby	48 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hansen's IGA Westby	Westby	40 FTE
NAT-TCR	234824-Joppa Po	Joppa, MD	9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Titan Tire of Bryan	Bryan, OH	9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Central Freight Lines, Inc. - San Antonio	San Antonio, TX	9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	DAL - Inflight	Dallas, TX	9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	125 Meijer Tipp City Oh	Tipp City, OH	138 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Store #097	Aledo, TX	138 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Metal Industries-Bushnell, Florida	Bushnell, FL	138 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Bradford Group Inc.	Madison, AL	138 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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