Joists, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Wisconsin

Argon Industries

Milwaukee, WI · ~118 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Argon Industries runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Joists, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Argon Industries: 6.6 TCR = 200% of Joists, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Argon Industries safety composite

Argon Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Argon Industries: 6.4 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.34× in 2023

Argon Industries's TCR rose 1.6 from 6.4 in 2021 to 8.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Milwaukee, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #30/53
  • PHOTO Metal Design Systems…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metal Design Systems Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Argon Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Argon Industries averages 6.6 TCR (200% of the Joists, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Argon Industries TCR series: 2021=6.4 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Argon Industries falls in its industry

1,158 Joists, sheet metal (except st establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

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 53 Joists, sheet metal (except st employers in Wisconsin.

Argon Industries (118 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Argon Industries
Argon Industries (118 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Argon Industries has more employees than the Joists, sheet metal (except stampings), median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2023 8.0 2.3 6 1 0
2022 5.5 0.0 4 1 0
2021 6.4 0.0 3 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · WI · Milwaukee

1,158 Joists, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 980 employers in Milwaukee, 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 Metal Design Systems Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robinson, Inc.-DP1 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duro Dyne Ohio 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pottorff Texas 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eau Claire Service Center 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwing Bioset 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE MidCountry Homes 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE CR Meyer - Green Bay 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 7,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR FROEDTERT HOSPITAL 7,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milwaukee Hospital 3,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital - Milw Campus 2,851 FTE
NAT-TCR Sarasota NJ TE LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Merrill Gardens 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Libby Care Center of Cascadia 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Protective Packaging Solutions 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gras Lawn, LLC 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Speed Art Museum 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascades at Riverwalk 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lindens 118 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.