CLS - Milwaukee
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OAK CREEK, WI
~119 avg employees | 5 years of OSHA data
CLS - Milwaukee has an average TCR of 5.3, which is 250% of the industry average (2.1) for this industry. This is significantly worse than average.
Safety Insights for CLS - Milwaukee
CLS - Milwaukee operates an establishment with approximately 119 full-time equivalent workers in OAK CREEK, WI. Across 5 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 28 recordable injuries, 3 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the F letter grade (Failing Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 2.1 for this sector, CLS - Milwaukee's workforce experiences 250% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 5 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating CLS - Milwaukee as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from CLS - Milwaukee's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 812320 — industry classification.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2020)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
5 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 372,888 hours worked = 2.68 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| CLS - Milwaukee (this establishment) | 5.26 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg |
| Collecting and distributing agents, laundry and drycleaning industry avg | 2.10 | BLS IIF, NAICS 812320 |
| Wisconsin state avg (all industries) | 9.28 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by CLS - Milwaukee to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2023: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 7 reportable incidents · 6 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 11 reportable incidents · 10 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 13 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3.8 | 2.7 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6.3 | 4.6 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 5.7 | 4.0 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
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