Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) · Wisconsin

Badger Iron Works, Inc.

Menomonie, WI · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Badger Iron Works, Inc. runs at 720% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) workplace, earning a grade F.

Badger Iron Works, Inc.: 23.8 TCR = 720% of Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Badger Iron Works, Inc. safety composite

Badger Iron Works, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Badger Iron Works, Inc.: 24.8 → 25.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 25.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2019

Badger Iron Works, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.1 from 24.8 in 2016 to 25.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Menomonie, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.8 · 720% of ind

  • DART 12.9 DART
  • RANK #39/39
  • PHOTO West Salisbury Found…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Salisbury Foundry and Machine Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Badger Iron Works, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Badger Iron Works, Inc. averages 23.8 TCR (720% of the Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) BLS benchmark).

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

Badger Iron Works, Inc. TCR series: 2016=24.8 · 2018=20.6 · 2019=25.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Badger Iron Works, Inc. falls in its industry

272 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 39 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile employers in Wisconsin.

Badger Iron Works, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 23.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Badger Iron Works, Inc.
Badger Iron Works, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 23.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Badger Iron Works, Inc. has fewer employees than the Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2019 25.9 12.9 2 0 0
2018 20.6 8.2 5 0 0
2016 24.8 9.3 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · WI · Menomonie

272 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 78 employers in Menomonie, 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 West Salisbury Foundry and Machine Co., Inc. 23.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Taylor & Fenn Company 24.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washburn Iron Works. Inc. 23.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BADGER FOUNDRY COMPANY 22.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Legacy Farms LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westby 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inguran LLC (dba STgenetics-Vienna Farms) 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALL ENERGY SOLAR MADISON WI 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6025 912 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6025 869 FTE
CITY-NEAR Menomonie 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phillips-Medisize, LLC - Phillips Medical 653 FTE
NAT-TCR Metlakatla 23.8 TCR
NAT-TCR W. Chicago 23.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Minnesota TNH Protege dba Weed Man Lawn Care 23.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amigos Meat Distributors West 23.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pft-Odessa Oregon 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Permian Tank & Manufacturing, Inc. - Kilgore 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 44241m - Valdosta Ga Ges Pec 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE PPOSBC - Upland 21 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: 2019, 2018, 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.