Food coloring, natural, manufacturing · Wisconsin

D.D. Williamson Colors

Port Washington, WI · ~23 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D.D. Williamson Colors runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food coloring, natural, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

D.D. Williamson Colors: 5.0 TCR = 121% of Food coloring, natural, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D.D. Williamson Colors safety composite

D.D. Williamson Colors scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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)
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.2

2016→2024

D.D. Williamson Colors injury rate improved

D.D. Williamson Colors's TCR fell 7.2 from 11.2 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.2 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=12.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Port Washington, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO Sensient Flavors - A…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sensient Flavors - Amboy (0.0 TCR gap)

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D.D. Williamson Colors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D.D. Williamson Colors averages 5.0 TCR (121% of the Food coloring, natural, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

D.D. Williamson Colors TCR series: 2016=11.2 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=12.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=4 · BLS 4.1

Where D.D. Williamson Colors falls in its industry

200 Food coloring, natural, manufa establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Food coloring, natural, manufa employers in Wisconsin.

D.D. Williamson Colors (23 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate D.D. Williamson Colors
D.D. Williamson Colors (23 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

D.D. Williamson Colors has fewer employees than the Food coloring, natural, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.8 0.0 0 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.6 4.3 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 12.5 12.5 3 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 11.2 11.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · WI · Port Washington

200 Food coloring, natural, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 33 employers in Port Washington, 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 Sensient Flavors - Amboy 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR APK INC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry-Manitowoc 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR McKenzie 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE W3855 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Badger Unified Cooperative Services 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 768 New Richmond Agronomy 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 079 Evansville Agronomy 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin Energy 884 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kleen Test Products - SSR 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kleen Test Products - Moore Road 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kickhaefer Manufacturing Co - Park Street 178 FTE
NAT-TCR George Moehrle Masonry, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Carlson Construction 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wis-Pak of Dyersburg 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Simpson Unlimited Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tomra Mass, LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington Courthouse Purina Feed Mill 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE MTJ Electric 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maintenance Systems Inc. 23 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.