Bale throwers manufacturing · Nebraska

Chief Fabrication

Grand Island, NE · ~160 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chief Fabrication runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bale throwers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Chief Fabrication: 5.2 TCR = 159% of Bale throwers manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chief Fabrication safety composite

Chief Fabrication scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Chief Fabrication: 5.3 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Chief Fabrication's TCR rose 1.7 from 5.3 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Grand Island, NE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 159% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #16/24
  • PHOTO SHIVVERS MANUFACTURI…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 78 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SHIVVERS MANUFACTURING INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chief Fabrication in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chief Fabrication averages 5.2 TCR (159% of the Bale throwers manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chief Fabrication TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=4 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=4 · 2020=3 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=7 · BLS 3.3

Where Chief Fabrication falls in its industry

433 Bale throwers manufacturing establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 24 Bale throwers manufacturing employers in Nebraska.

Chief Fabrication (160 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chief Fabrication
Chief Fabrication (160 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Chief Fabrication has more employees than the Bale throwers manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 7.0 5.1 11 0 0
2023 4.3 3.2 8 0 0
2022 6.9 3.2 13 0 0
2021 7.4 4.0 13 0 0
2020 3.0 0.7 4 0 0
2019 4.0 2.8 7 0 0
2018 5.4 0.5 9 1 0
2017 4.0 2.7 6 0 0
2016 5.3 3.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · NE · Grand Island

433 Bale throwers manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 140 employers in Grand Island, 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 SHIVVERS MANUFACTURING INC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLAAS Omaha Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR H&S MFG. CO. INC. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vermeer Corporation 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Valmont Industries 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE STANLEY Healthcare 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE 615-00321 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4322 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Island 3,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Francis Medical Center 699 FTE
CITY-NEAR CNH Industrial - Grand Island 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hornady Mfg Co 627 FTE
NAT-TCR Gerali Custom Design, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR U.S. Granules Corporation - ALMEG Division 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Paulo - Murfreesboro 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NCS 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dawn Food Products - Jackson Manufacturing 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riviera Beach 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philadelphia Airport Marriott 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 160 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.