Garden machinery and equipment, powered, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Ariens Company Plant 1

Brillion, WI · ~598 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ariens Company Plant 1 runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden machinery and equipment, powered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ariens Company Plant 1: 10.0 TCR = 303% of Garden machinery and equipment, powered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ariens Company Plant 1 safety composite

Ariens Company Plant 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Ariens Company Plant 1: 7.0 → 13.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2017

Ariens Company Plant 1's TCR rose 6.1 from 7.0 in 2016 to 13.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333112 · Brillion, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 303% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #21/21
  • PHOTO Behlen Mfg. Co.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 112 inj
  • SIZE ~598 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Behlen Mfg. Co. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Ariens Company Plant 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ariens Company Plant 1 averages 10.0 TCR (303% of the Garden machinery and equipment, powered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ariens Company Plant 1 TCR series: 2016=7 · 2017=13.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Ariens Company Plant 1 falls in its industry

91 Garden machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 21 Garden machinery and equipment employers in Wisconsin.

Ariens Company Plant 1 (598 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ariens Company Plant 1
Ariens Company Plant 1 (598 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Ariens Company Plant 1 has more employees than the Garden machinery and equipment, powered, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2017 13.1 10.2 83 4 0
2016 7.0 1.7 29 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333112 · WI · Brillion

91 Garden machinery and equipment, powered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 10 employers in Brillion, 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 Behlen Mfg. Co. 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michigan Wood Fibers LLC 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LASHLEY TRACTOR SALES, INC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schiller Grounds Care PA 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABS Global 598 FTE
STATE-SIZE MARATHON CHEESE (MEDFORD) 598 FTE
STATE-SIZE JP Cullen & Sons 599 FTE
STATE-SIZE Molson Coors Beverage Company USA 600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ariens Company 1,274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Endries International Inc 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 3 571 FTE
CITY-NEAR Endries International Inc Corporate 406 FTE
NAT-TCR Forest Park (Gafpa) 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Max & Erma's Pickerington 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR B-X Middletown CT LLC 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Wilshire Ucla Distribution 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC-444 598 FTE
NAT-SIZE USJT Ingram Micro Inc Jonestown 598 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZECL 598 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spectrum Brands, Lake Forest 598 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: 2017, 2016. 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.