Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

Certco Inc

Fitchburg, WI · ~543 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Certco Inc runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Certco Inc: 5.8 TCR = 264% of Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Certco Inc safety composite

Certco Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Certco Inc: 4.5 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

Certco Inc's TCR rose 2.5 from 4.5 in 2023 to 7.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Fitchburg, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.8 · 264% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #22/42
  • PHOTO ABC Santa Fe
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 65 inj
  • SIZE ~543 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ABC Santa Fe (0.0 TCR gap)

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Certco Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Certco Inc averages 5.8 TCR (264% of the Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Certco Inc TCR series: 2023=4.5 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Certco Inc falls in its industry

1,278 Prepared foods (except frozen) establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 42 Prepared foods (except frozen) employers in Wisconsin.

Certco Inc (543 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Certco Inc
Certco Inc (543 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Certco Inc has more employees than the Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2024 7.1 7.1 40 0 0
2023 4.5 4.5 25 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · WI · Fitchburg

1,278 Prepared foods (except frozen) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 26 employers in Fitchburg, 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 ABC Santa Fe 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR INSOURCE PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS AT COKE LAVERGNE 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR C113 LaVergne 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WILLIAMSPORT PA 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Linetec 543 FTE
STATE-SIZE 099 ABC Supply NSC 543 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Girl Middleton 543 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayo Clinic Health System-Red Cedar 543 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sub-Zero Built In 1,057 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolf Appliance 1,006 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sub-Zero Built-In 699 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agrace HospiceCare / Dane County 524 FTE
NAT-TCR Quality Painting & Wallcoverings, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR EME Industrial Services, LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Indian Lake 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 102452-Okc-Tulsa Main 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gerber Products Co 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE DC 29 - Lakeland, FL 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conexon, LLC 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE JW Marriott Nashville 543 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: 2024, 2023. 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.