Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Wisconsin

Gardner Manufacturing Company

Name: Gardner Manufacturing Company Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Horicon, WI · ~80 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Gardner Manufacturing Company runs at 293% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Gardner Manufacturing Company: 9.7 TCR = 293% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner Manufacturing Company safety composite

Gardner Manufacturing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers
DART rate: F 8.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gardner Manufacturing Company: 8.4 → 13.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Gardner Manufacturing Company's TCR rose 5.0 from 8.4 in 2016 to 13.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Horicon, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 293% of ind

DART 8.9 DART
RANK #43/53
PHOTO Prescottmetal
BOOK 6y book
INJ 41 inj
SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prescottmetal (0.0 TCR gap)

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9.7
Prescottmetal

9.7
CEMCO -HQ

9.7
Klauer Manufac

9.6
Cleburne Metal

9.6

What this shows Gardner Manufacturing Company averages 9.7 TCR (293% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Gardner Manufacturing Company TCR series: 2016=8.4 · 2019=9.6 · 2020=10.1 · 2021=5.9 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=13.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Gardner Manufacturing Company falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 53 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in Wisconsin.

Gardner Manufacturing Company (80 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Gardner Manufacturing Company has more employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024	13.4	8.9	7	2
2023	10.6	9.2	7	1
2021	5.9	3.0	4	0
2020	10.1	0.0	7	0
2019	9.6	0.0	8	0
2016	8.4	1.1	8	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · WI · Horicon

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 15 employers in Horicon, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Prescottmetal	BIDDEFORD, ME	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Klauer Manufacturing Company - Roosevelt Plant	DUBUQUE, IA	9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CEMCO -HQ	CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cleburne Metal Works dba Cleburne Sheet Metal	FORT WORTH, TX	9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Mavid Construction Sevices LLC	GREEN BAY	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lexington Homes	HOBART	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bob Anderson Builders, Inc.	WALES	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Infinity Exteriors LLC	NEW BERLIN	80 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Horicon Works	Horicon	1,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Horicon	Horicon	89 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Advanced Disposal - Horicon	Horicon	83 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Advanced Disposal - Horicon Hauling	Horicon	82 FTE
NAT-TCR	IHG Army Hotels - Fort Huachuca (Candlewood Suites/Holiday Inn Express/Army Lodging)	Fort Huachuca, AZ	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas	Dallas, TX	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Brookfield Store	Brookfield, CT	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Banks Chevrolet-Cadillac-Buick-GMC (00310)	Concord, NH	9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	AW of Murfreesboro	Murfreesboro, TN	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Aegis Gardens of Fremont	Fremont, CA	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ayia02-Aymi-Aym - Albia	Albia, IA	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Avoca, LLC - NC	Merry Hill, NC	80 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.