Excelsior (e.g., pads, wrappers) manufacturing · Wisconsin

American Excelsior Company Rice Lake

Rice Lake, WI · ~167 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Excelsior Company Rice Lake runs at 286% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Excelsior (e.g., pads, wrappers) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

American Excelsior Company Rice Lake: 9.4 TCR = 286% of Excelsior (e.g., pads, wrappers) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Excelsior Company Rice Lake safety composite

American Excelsior Company Rice Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

American Excelsior Company Rice Lake: 7.4 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

American Excelsior Company Rice Lake's TCR rose 1.8 from 7.4 in 2016 to 9.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Rice Lake, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 286% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #23/30
  • PHOTO Lignetics - Forest E…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 131 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lignetics - Forest Energy AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Excelsior Company Rice Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Excelsior Company Rice Lake averages 9.4 TCR (286% of the Excelsior (e.g., pads, wrappers) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Excelsior Company Rice Lake TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=10.2 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=11.1 · 2023=11 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 3.3

Where American Excelsior Company Rice Lake falls in its industry

405 Excelsior (e.g., pads, wrapper establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 30 Excelsior (e.g., pads, wrapper employers in Wisconsin.

American Excelsior Company Rice Lake (167 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate American Excelsior Company Rice Lake
American Excelsior Company Rice Lake (167 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

American Excelsior Company Rice Lake has more employees than the Excelsior (e.g., pads, wrappers) manufac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 9.2 6.0 17 0 0
2023 11.0 8.2 20 0 0
2022 11.1 9.3 19 0 0
2021 10.7 7.8 18 0 0
2020 9.2 5.5 10 5 0
2019 6.2 4.8 9 0 0
2018 9.9 8.1 13 3 0
2017 10.2 5.4 15 0 0
2016 7.4 6.7 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · WI · Rice Lake

405 Excelsior (e.g., pads, wrappers) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 44 employers in Rice Lake, 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 Lignetics - Forest Energy AZ 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wood Specialties, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Mulch & Soil Co. Tarrytown 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Faircloth Welding and Fabrication, Inc. d/b/a LJR Forest Products 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elmroad Generating Station 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pewaukee Data Center 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monarch Paving 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE MP Systems, Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeview Medical Center 508 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMC- Rice Lake 435 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1446 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Repeating Arms - Rice Lake 394 FTE
NAT-TCR Office 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Omaha, Ne 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Maestro-Connections VNA 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ok Grocery - Crafton (W007) 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greensboro Science Center 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE HEW Broken Bow, OK 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harland Clarke - Louisville 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unitex Linden 167 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, 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.