Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Wisconsin

essential Industries

Merton, WI · ~68 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

essential Industries runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

essential Industries: 2.9 TCR = 86% of Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

essential Industries safety composite

essential Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

essential Industries: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2023

essential Industries's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Merton, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #11/24
  • PHOTO Houston EB BASF
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Houston EB BASF (0.0 TCR gap)

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essential Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows essential Industries averages 2.9 TCR (86% of the Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

essential Industries TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where essential Industries falls in its industry

530 Industrial product finishes an establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 24 Industrial product finishes an employers in Wisconsin.

essential Industries (68 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate essential Industries
essential Industries (68 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

essential Industries has fewer employees than the Industrial product finishes and coatings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2022 4.7 4.7 3 0 0
2021 6.3 0.0 3 1 0
2020 2.9 1.5 2 0 0
2019 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2018 3.9 1.3 1 2 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · WI · Merton

530 Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 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 Houston EB BASF 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jamestown Coatings 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR RJR Technologies Oakland Facility 7750 and 7785 Edgewater 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 01- Fayetteville 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE R Braun Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE R Braun Inc 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Metal Tech. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid City Corporation 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wachtel Tree Science 54 FTE
NAT-TCR Sheepshead-Nostrand 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5121 Erie, PA 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Maintenance & Service Co., Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jensen's Plumbing & Heating 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mountain Valley of Cascadia 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lewiston Transitional Care of Cascadia 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE McArthur 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deutz Corporation-Sequence Center 68 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.

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