Culture media manufacturing · Wisconsin

Custer and Woolworth Plant

Milwaukee, WI · ~32 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Custer and Woolworth Plant runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Culture media manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Custer and Woolworth Plant: 3.6 TCR = 110% of Culture media manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Custer and Woolworth Plant safety composite

Custer and Woolworth Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Custer and Woolworth Plant: 0.0 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Custer and Woolworth Plant's TCR rose 7.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · Milwaukee, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 110% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO The Blood Connection
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Blood Connection (0.1 TCR gap)

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Custer and Woolworth Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Custer and Woolworth Plant averages 3.6 TCR (110% of the Culture media manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Custer and Woolworth Plant TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Custer and Woolworth Plant falls in its industry

234 Culture media manufacturing establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Culture media manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Custer and Woolworth Plant (32 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Custer and Woolworth Plant
Custer and Woolworth Plant (32 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Custer and Woolworth Plant has fewer employees than the Culture media manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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 7.5 0.0 1 1 0
2023 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · WI · Milwaukee

234 Culture media manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 980 employers in Milwaukee, 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 The Blood Connection 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorado Serum Company 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Repligen 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hygieia Biological Laboratories- Commerce 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Al's Apples Inc 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2404-De Forest, WI (Monsanto Co.) 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mackville 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction - Sub & Trans 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 7,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR FROEDTERT HOSPITAL 7,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milwaukee Hospital 3,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital - Milw Campus 2,851 FTE
NAT-TCR Falls Filtration Technologies, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR EMI Corp-Jackson Center 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlie C's IGA #835 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Carilion Athletic Clubs Co. 24 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vander Haag's Inc. - Council Bluffs 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE 148 Pine Ridge 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE At Home Stores #147 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herbert F. Darling, Inc. 32 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.