Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing · Nebraska

Bison Inc

Lincoln, NE · ~119 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bison Inc runs at 234% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bison Inc: 7.7 TCR = 234% of Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bison Inc safety composite

Bison Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Bison Inc: 7.1 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2023

Bison Inc's TCR rose 1.8 from 7.1 in 2016 to 8.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339920 · Lincoln, NE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 234% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO Riedell Shoes Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Riedell Shoes Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bison Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bison Inc averages 7.7 TCR (234% of the Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bison Inc TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2018=6.5 · 2021=8.4 · 2023=8.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Bison Inc falls in its industry

197 Athletic goods (except ammunit establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bison Inc (119 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 Bison Inc
Bison Inc (119 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Bison Inc has more employees than the Athletic goods (except ammunition, cloth median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 8.8 7.8 8 0 0
2021 8.4 3.6 7 0 0
2018 6.5 1.9 7 0 0
2016 7.1 4.1 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339920 · NE · Lincoln

197 Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 496 employers in Lincoln, NE · 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 Riedell Shoes Inc 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schutt Reconditioning 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quakertown Facility 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Playtime 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bauer Underground, Inc. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wis-Pak of Norfolk 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Syngenta Omaha 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE 615-00301 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet Servicing LLC 2,850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet - Lincoln HQ 2,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bryan East Campus 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR FACTS Education Corporation 1,986 FTE
NAT-TCR IBS Houston 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Newport News Hospice 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Charter Elementary School 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Someren Glen 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Buckhead Marriott 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE USM Store #903 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ridgeview Post Acute 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0099 119 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, 2021, 2018, 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.