Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Helgesen

Hartford, WI · ~276 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helgesen runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Helgesen: 5.7 TCR = 171% of Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helgesen safety composite

Helgesen scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Helgesen: 3.7 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2019

Helgesen's TCR rose 4.0 from 3.7 in 2017 to 7.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Hartford, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 171% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #23/45
  • PHOTO Westside Welding, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~276 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westside Welding, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Helgesen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helgesen averages 5.7 TCR (171% of the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Helgesen TCR series: 2017=3.7 · 2019=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Helgesen falls in its industry

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 45 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut employers in Wisconsin.

Helgesen (276 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Helgesen
Helgesen (276 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Helgesen has more employees than the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punc 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 Fatalities
2019 7.6 2.9 24 0 0
2017 3.7 1.0 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · WI · Hartford

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 48 employers in Hartford, 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 Westside Welding, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BALDWIN METALS COMPANY INC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR York YOR 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Andersen Menomonie Inc. 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shine Technologies 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE amcor Healthcare Oshkosh 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bemis North America - Appleton 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR HARTFORD WI 743 FTE
CITY-NEAR SIGNICAST LLC 738 FTE
CITY-NEAR Signicast - Hartford Manufacturing Complex 736 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broan-NuTone LLC 723 FTE
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Dearborn Hauling Company 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR District 3 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #526 (Afton, WY) 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR BMS 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE FRMNMAAA 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6091-SS015 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sacramento MLS 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newark Liberty International Airport Marriott 276 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: 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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