Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

White Hill

Shullsburg, WI · ~65 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

White Hill runs at 285% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

White Hill: 9.4 TCR = 285% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

White Hill safety composite

White Hill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

−0.8

2016→2019

White Hill injury rate improved

White Hill's TCR fell 0.8 from 9.7 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.7 · 2017=9.7 · 2019=8.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 285% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #145/171
  • PHOTO BelGioioso Cheese - …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BelGioioso Cheese - Chase I (0.0 TCR gap)

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White Hill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows White Hill averages 9.4 TCR (285% 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

White Hill TCR series: 2016=9.7 · 2017=9.7 · 2019=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where White Hill falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #145 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

White Hill (65 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 White Hill
White Hill (65 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

White Hill has fewer 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
2019 8.9 8.9 6 0 0
2017 9.7 6.4 6 0 0
2016 9.7 6.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Shullsburg

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 8 employers in Shullsburg, 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 BelGioioso Cheese - Chase I 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vermont Creamery 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yancey's Fancy Main Road Location 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABS Global - Leeds 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE I E I GENERAL CONTRACTORS INC 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reesman's Excavating and Grading 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE The State Group Industrial USA Limited - Division 48 Wisconsin 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creamery 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR White Hill Cheese 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truck Country - Shullsburg 54 FTE
NAT-TCR Tops 233 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 263131-Far-Carrier Anx 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 15164 BIR Baylor Grapevine - Mgd Unit 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1694 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain - Whrpl North Liberty 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mosaic Waco 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Andrews Resources for Seniors System 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Coast Region 65 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.