Processed cheeses manufacturing · Wisconsin

Whitehall East

Whitehall, WI · ~170 workers · 3 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

Whitehall East runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed cheeses manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Whitehall East: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Processed cheeses manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitehall East safety composite

Whitehall East scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

57/100

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
C 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−2.1

2022→2024

Whitehall East injury rate improved

Whitehall East's TCR fell 2.1 from 4.0 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.0 · 2023=7.0 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #61/171
  • PHOTO Laubscher Cheese Com…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Laubscher Cheese Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whitehall East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whitehall East averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Processed cheeses manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Whitehall East TCR series: 2022=4 · 2023=7 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Whitehall East falls in its industry

377 Processed cheeses manufacturin 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 #61 safest of 171 Processed cheeses manufacturin employers in Wisconsin.

Whitehall East (170 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 Whitehall East
Whitehall East (170 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Whitehall East has more employees than the Processed cheeses manufacturing 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
2024 1.9 1.9 5 0 0
2023 7.0 6.3 10 0 0
2022 4.0 3.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Whitehall

377 Processed cheeses manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 16 employers in Whitehall, 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 Laubscher Cheese Company 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese_South Gate 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Valley Cheese 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Foods Inc. 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kiel 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE I-K-I Manufacturing 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tigre USA - Janesville 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall Facility 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall Specialties - Plant 2 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall West 132 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon Retail LLC - MAC7 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fujifilm Ultrapure Solutions 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Home2 Suites Avondale 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Katahdin Valley Health Center, Patten South 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon Retail LLC - MAE6 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Joy Fc 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE TK Elevator Austin 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5121 Cb Stockton Dc 170 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. 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.