Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers · Wisconsin

Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel

Cottage Grove, WI · ~30 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel: 2.9 TCR = 130% of Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel safety composite

Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−3.6

2016→2023

Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel injury rate improved

Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Cottage Grove, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.9 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/35
  • PHOTO Aldrich Chemical Co …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Teutonia Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel averages 2.9 TCR (130% of the Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=3 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel falls in its industry

766 Other Chemical and Allied Prod establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

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 35 Other Chemical and Allied Prod employers in Wisconsin.

Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel (30 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel
Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel (30 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel has fewer employees than the Other Chemical and Allied Products Merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2021 6.6 3.3 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2016 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · WI · Cottage Grove

766 Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 25 employers in Cottage Grove, 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 Aldrich Chemical Co LLC - Teutonia Facility 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shinnston (S184) 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillyard Co. - Los Angeles 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SolvChem, Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wayside Nurseries Inc 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hwy 37 Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Mills Complex (LMC) 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tomah Receiving 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson Health Tech North America, Inc. 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shared Medical Services 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR R. G. Huston Co., Inc. 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cottage Grove East (CGE) - Main St 116 FTE
NAT-TCR 36 Highland Tape 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Linc 3716 (Smyrna LLC - F) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR American Metals West Sacramento 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR W.R.Case & Sons Cutlery Company 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Assisted Living 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snavely's Mill, Inc. - Mill Hall, PA 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fishers (Indianapolis) 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE K&H Manufacturing 30 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, 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.