Canning fruits and vegetables · Wisconsin

Bush Brothers & Company

Augusta, WI · ~168 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Bush Brothers & Company runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Canning fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade D.

Bush Brothers & Company: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Canning fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bush Brothers & Company safety composite

Bush Brothers & Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2020→2023

Bush Brothers & Company injury rate improved

Bush Brothers & Company's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.8 in 2020 to 1.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.8 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=7.6 · 2023=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Augusta, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #24/43
  • PHOTO Seneca Foods Corpora…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seneca Foods Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bush Brothers & Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bush Brothers & Company averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Canning fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Bush Brothers & Company TCR series: 2020=2.8 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=7.6 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Bush Brothers & Company falls in its industry

330 Canning fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 43 Canning fruits and vegetables employers in Wisconsin.

Bush Brothers & Company (168 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bush Brothers & Company
Bush Brothers & Company (168 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Bush Brothers & Company has more employees than the Canning fruits and vegetables median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2022 7.6 7.0 13 0 0
2021 4.5 3.9 8 0 0
2020 2.8 1.7 5 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · WI · Augusta

330 Canning fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 4 employers in Augusta, 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 Seneca Foods Corporation 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knouse Foods Biglerville 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Portion Control Jacksonville 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Pickles Manufacturing LLC 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fowler & Hammer, Inc. 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Concrete Construction LLC 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE NEXT Electric LLC 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poblocki Paving Corp 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Augusta WI Plant 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Augusta Area Home 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gordy's Augusta Foods, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-TCR POET Biorefining - Shelbyville 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR West Liberty Foods 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Silver Springs Construction, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Outlook nebraska 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arthrex California Tech 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linzer Products Corp 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wapakoneta 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain Shadows 168 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, 2020. 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.