Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility

Monticello, WI · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility runs at 307% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility: 10.1 TCR = 307% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility safety composite

Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility: 13.4 → 51.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 51.6 TCR · DART/TCR 4.51× in 2020

Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility's TCR rose 38.2 from 13.4 in 2018 to 51.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 4.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 307% of ind

  • DART 45.7 DART
  • RANK #154/171
  • PHOTO Lactalis USA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lactalis USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility averages 10.1 TCR (307% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility TCR series: 2018=13.4 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=51.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #154 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility (51 employees, TCR 10.1) 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 Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility
Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility (51 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu 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
2020 51.6 45.7 4 22 0
2019 6.8 6.8 3 0 0
2018 13.4 8.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Monticello

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 3 employers in Monticello, 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 Lactalis USA 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bellwether Farms, LLC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese_Lena 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Old Europe Cheese, Inc. 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Biddick, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delafield 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.F. Tomasini Contractors, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraemer North America - Iowa - All Others 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Family Fresh Pack, Inc. 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Faith Engineering, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-TCR Dwt 89 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR River Crossing 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Juniper Village at Brookline 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific NW Marble and Granite Inc 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Onsite - HP Vancouver 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouse East Including Lamar and Nevada 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newport Farms Inc 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMPI 51 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.