Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Colby Metal, Inc.

Colby, WI · ~65 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colby Metal, Inc. runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Colby Metal, Inc.: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colby Metal, Inc. safety composite

Colby Metal, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Colby Metal, Inc.: 3.0 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Colby Metal, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.7 from 3.0 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Colby, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #36/73
  • PHOTO Metallic Ladder Mfg …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metallic Ladder Mfg Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colby Metal, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colby Metal, Inc. averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Colby Metal, Inc. TCR series: 2017=3 · 2018=5.9 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Colby Metal, Inc. falls in its industry

827 Tubing, flexible metal, manufa establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 73 Tubing, flexible metal, manufa employers in Wisconsin.

Colby Metal, Inc. (65 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Colby Metal, Inc.
Colby Metal, Inc. (65 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Colby Metal, Inc. has fewer employees than the Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 4.7 0.0 2 0 0
2023 9.3 0.0 5 0 0
2022 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2018 5.9 0.0 4 0 0
2017 3.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · WI · Colby

827 Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 8 employers in Colby, 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 Metallic Ladder Mfg Corp 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Sales & Manufacturing, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BTD Tooling Lakeville 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richland Industries, LLC 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABS Global - Leeds 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE I E I GENERAL CONTRACTORS INC 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reesman's Excavating and Grading 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE The State Group Industrial USA Limited - Division 48 Wisconsin 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Welcome Dairy, LLC 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loos Machine and Automation LLC 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR COLBY, WI 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kelley Supply Inc 42 FTE
NAT-TCR Foster Electric Corporation 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Granite & Marble Works, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cerno LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6911 Marlboro 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stealth Construction 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardigan Ridge Senior Living 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie Bluffs Senior Living 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engineered Mobile Solutions, Inc. 65 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, 2018, 2017. 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.