Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing · Wisconsin

Edgerton Gear, Inc.

Edgerton, WI · ~40 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Edgerton Gear, Inc. runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Edgerton Gear, Inc.: 4.8 TCR = 147% of Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Edgerton Gear, Inc. safety composite

Edgerton Gear, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−5.8

2016→2024

Edgerton Gear, Inc. injury rate improved

Edgerton Gear, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.8 from 10.9 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.9 · 2017=7.9 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333612 · Edgerton, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 147% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO Avon Gear & Engineer…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avon Gear & Engineering Co (0.2 TCR gap)

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Edgerton Gear, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Edgerton Gear, Inc. averages 4.8 TCR (147% of the Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Edgerton Gear, Inc. TCR series: 2016=10.9 · 2017=7.9 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Edgerton Gear, Inc. falls in its industry

106 Gears, power transmission (exc establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Gears, power transmission (exc employers in Wisconsin.

Edgerton Gear, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Edgerton Gear, Inc.
Edgerton Gear, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Edgerton Gear, Inc. has fewer employees than the Gears, power transmission (except aircra median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 5.1 2.5 1 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 5.1 2.6 2 0 0
2019 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.9 0.0 2 0 0
2017 7.9 5.2 3 0 0
2016 10.9 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333612 · WI · Edgerton

106 Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 19 employers in Edgerton, 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 Avon Gear & Engineering Co 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Machine Company LLC - Blairsville Transit 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Overton Chicago Gear - Chicago 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niagara Gear Corporation 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE W. & E. Radtke, Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABS Global-Waunakee 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Port Washington Generating Station 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE AZCO WPL Wood County Solar 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edgerton Hospital 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR I-K-I Manufacturing 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edgerton Care Center 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR 32514 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Fred Finch Youth and Family Services 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Western Manufacturing Co. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6214 Enfield 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Asp Logistics LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE URS Fontana 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lume Iron Mountain 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Down to Earth Kailua 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Del Mar 40 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, 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.