Bakery machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

Berco of America-Waukesha

Waukesha, WI · ~123 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berco of America-Waukesha runs at 490% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bakery machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Berco of America-Waukesha: 10.8 TCR = 490% of Bakery machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berco of America-Waukesha safety composite

Berco of America-Waukesha scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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 10.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Berco of America-Waukesha: 7.4 → 17.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 17.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2021

Berco of America-Waukesha's TCR rose 9.9 from 7.4 in 2017 to 17.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Waukesha, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 490% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #26/27
  • PHOTO FAIRBORN EQUIPMENT C…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FAIRBORN EQUIPMENT COMPANY FLORIDA, LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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Berco of America-Waukesha in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berco of America-Waukesha averages 10.8 TCR (490% of the Bakery machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Berco of America-Waukesha TCR series: 2017=7.4 · 2018=10.8 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=11.3 · 2021=17.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Berco of America-Waukesha falls in its industry

911 Bakery machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #26 safest of 27 Bakery machinery and equipment employers in Wisconsin.

Berco of America-Waukesha (123 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Berco of America-Waukesha
Berco of America-Waukesha (123 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Berco of America-Waukesha has more employees than the Bakery machinery and equipment merchant 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
2021 17.3 5.5 19 0 0
2020 11.3 6.8 10 0 0
2019 7.1 5.7 10 0 0
2018 10.8 7.2 15 0 0
2017 7.4 4.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · WI · Waukesha

911 Bakery machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 285 employers in Waukesha, 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 FAIRBORN EQUIPMENT COMPANY FLORIDA, LLC 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paris 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dyna-Lift Inc 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HUTSON INC - POSEYVILLE 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Watertown 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cambria #108 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Foods Inc 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foremost Farms - Richland Center 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukesha Memorial Hospital 2,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Generac-Waukesha 1,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEHC : Waukesha WI (WSO), HCS 1,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Generac Power Systems, Inc. 1,090 FTE
NAT-TCR 257230-Owosso Po 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Boulder Manor 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Gardens of Social Circle 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Magic Services 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hospice of Palm Beach County- Area 3 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windsor Gardens Healthcare Ctr of the Valley 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #003 123 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.