Presses, metal baling, manufacturing · Wisconsin

A&E Grinding

Oak Creek, WI · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A&E Grinding runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Presses, metal baling, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

A&E Grinding: 6.3 TCR = 190% of Presses, metal baling, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A&E Grinding safety composite

A&E Grinding scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

A&E Grinding: 0.0 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2024

A&E Grinding's TCR rose 6.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333999 · Oak Creek, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 190% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #12/15
  • PHOTO Ely Enterprises Inc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ely Enterprises Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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A&E Grinding in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A&E Grinding averages 6.3 TCR (190% of the Presses, metal baling, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

A&E Grinding TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=2 · 2020=12.4 · 2023=10.4 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where A&E Grinding falls in its industry

242 Presses, metal baling, manufac establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 15 Presses, metal baling, manufac employers in Wisconsin.

A&E Grinding (30 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate A&E Grinding
A&E Grinding (30 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.5

A&E Grinding has fewer employees than the Presses, metal baling, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 6.5 6.5 1 0 0
2023 10.4 10.4 2 0 0
2020 12.4 9.3 4 0 0
2019 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333999 · WI · Oak Creek

242 Presses, metal baling, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 134 employers in Oak Creek, 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 Ely Enterprises Inc 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Separators (loc code: SEPARA) 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Processing Equipment 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 23 North 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wayside Nurseries Inc 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hwy 37 Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Mills Complex (LMC) 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tomah Receiving 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MKE2 3,202 FTE
CITY-NEAR WIOAK - OAK CREEK 1,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR OAK CREEK (WIOAK) 1,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stella & Chewy's 740 FTE
NAT-TCR Flexfab Horizons International 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Earth County 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmark Label 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Equipment Rental Co 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carson Field Office 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albertville Hatchery 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flagg Creek Water Reclamation District 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tsi Calera 30 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, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.