Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · Wisconsin

Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc.

Theresa, WI · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc.: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. safety composite

Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−6.2

2023→2024

Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. injury rate improved

Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc.'s TCR fell 6.2 from 6.2 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Theresa, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #30/171
  • PHOTO Ingredients - DC - C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Chili WI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. TCR series: 2023=6.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #30 safest of 171 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Wisconsin.

Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc.
Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. has fewer employees than the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 6.2 6.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Theresa

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 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 Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Chili WI 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pollock, SD 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - Ledgeview 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Paige 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE WORZELLA & SONS, INC. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spring Grove Dairy 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ross Soil Service LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABS 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aubrey Electric Inc 32 FTE
NAT-TCR Lewistown 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Preserve at Verdae 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Citadel of Northbrook 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Square 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Classic Plains Construction 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hermiston Grocery Outlet 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great American Melodrama 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Ronkonkoma 100 Arrivals Dr 26 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. 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.