Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3

Hillsboro, WI · ~87 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 runs at 163% 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 3: 5.4 TCR = 163% of Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 safety composite

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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)
D 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−4.7

2016→2021

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 injury rate improved

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3's TCR fell 4.7 from 6.1 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.1 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 163% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #86/171
  • PHOTO Betin Inc - Belmont
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Betin Inc - Belmont (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 averages 5.4 TCR (163% 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 3 TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 falls in its industry

377 Cheese products, imitation or establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #86 safest of 171 Cheese products, imitation or employers in Wisconsin.

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 (87 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3
Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 (87 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 has fewer employees than the Cheese products, imitation or substitute 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 1.3 1.3 0 1 0
2020 7.2 6.0 4 2 0
2019 7.3 6.1 6 0 0
2018 4.7 3.5 3 1 0
2017 5.6 4.5 5 0 0
2016 6.1 4.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Hillsboro

377 Cheese products, imitation or substitute, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 8 employers in Hillsboro, 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 Betin Inc - Belmont 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Wausau 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewster Cheese - Stockton 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marathon Cheese Corporation Mt. Home 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Genoa #3 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waukesha Service Center 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super Excavators WI 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE E80 Plus Constructors, LLC 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillsboro 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR METCO 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Land O'Lakes - Hillsboro 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milestone Senior Living-Hillsboro 36 FTE
NAT-TCR Wingate at Beacon 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Baltimore 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Organizaiton 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Olathe Medical Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holland Walls Plant 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hantover Corporate Office 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dayton 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Victoria Landing, LLC 87 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.