Processed cheeses manufacturing · Wisconsin

Whitehall West

Whitehall, WI · ~132 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whitehall West runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Processed cheeses manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Whitehall West: 3.6 TCR = 108% of Processed cheeses manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitehall West safety composite

Whitehall West scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Whitehall West: 2.4 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2024

Whitehall West's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.4 in 2022 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #42/171
  • PHOTO Sorrento Lactalis Na…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sorrento Lactalis Nampa Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whitehall West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whitehall West averages 3.6 TCR (108% 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 West TCR series: 2022=2.4 · 2023=5 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Whitehall West falls in its industry

377 Processed cheeses manufacturin establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #42 safest of 171 Processed cheeses manufacturin employers in Wisconsin.

Whitehall West (132 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 West
Whitehall West (132 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Whitehall West 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 3.2 0.6 5 0 0
2023 5.0 5.0 4 2 0
2022 2.4 2.4 3 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 Sorrento Lactalis Nampa Site 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms - Appleton 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABS IntelliGen 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE RHD Plumbing, Inc 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Milwaukee 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE SFC Gillett 333 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall Facility 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall East 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall Specialties - Plant 2 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 138 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - WML1 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Saticoy Lemon Association - Santa Paula 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Iten Industries Inc. (Plant 4) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Toft Dairy Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dsd Merchandisers LLC 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redtails Logistics Corporation Inc 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennedy Krieger Greenspring-Center for Autism POB 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Standard Sales Company, LP Louisville, KY 132 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.