Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1

Whitehall, WI · ~138 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 safety composite

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−5.8

2016→2021

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 injury rate improved

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1's TCR fell 5.8 from 8.5 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.5 · 2017=9.5 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #65/171
  • PHOTO Emmi Roth USA-Platte…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Emmi Roth USA-Platteville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 TCR series: 2016=8.5 · 2017=9.5 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=2 · 2021=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 falls in its industry

377 Cheese products, imitation or establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #65 safest of 171 Cheese products, imitation or employers in Wisconsin.

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 (138 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Specialties - Plant 1
Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 (138 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 has more employees than the Cheese products, imitation or substitute 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
2021 2.7 2.0 4 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 2 1 0
2019 1.7 0.9 2 0 0
2018 2.5 1.6 2 1 0
2017 9.5 8.1 12 1 0
2016 8.5 6.2 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Whitehall

377 Cheese products, imitation or substitute, 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 Emmi Roth USA-Platteville 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marquez Brothers International, Inc. - Hanford 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lancaster 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hull Facility - AGROPUR 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pewaukee Customer Contact Center 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Century Fence Company 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westby Cooperative Creamery 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE AstenJohnson Appleton 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall Facility 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall East 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall Specialties - Plant 2 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall West 132 FTE
NAT-TCR 4011 Main St. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Homtex Weaving - Belton 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 422-DC005-0006 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BAL 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE LAX Los Angeles - 1100 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashton Place Health and Rehab 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grus Services LLC _Field 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Babylon ShopRite #835 138 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.