Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying · Wisconsin

Holtger Bros., Inc.

De Pere, WI · ~128 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Holtger Bros., Inc. runs at 398% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying workplace, earning a grade F.

Holtger Bros., Inc.: 11.1 TCR = 398% of Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Holtger Bros., Inc. safety composite

Holtger Bros., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−11.7

2016→2024

Holtger Bros., Inc. injury rate improved

Holtger Bros., Inc.'s TCR fell 11.7 from 14.8 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.8 · 2017=17.3 · 2018=17.6 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · De Pere, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 398% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #36/40
  • PHOTO West Union Trenching…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Union Trenching Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Holtger Bros., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Holtger Bros., Inc. averages 11.1 TCR (398% of the Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS benchmark).

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

Holtger Bros., Inc. TCR series: 2016=14.8 · 2017=17.3 · 2018=17.6 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Holtger Bros., Inc. falls in its industry

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 40 Underground cable (e.g., cable employers in Wisconsin.

Holtger Bros., Inc. (128 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Holtger Bros., Inc.
Holtger Bros., Inc. (128 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Holtger Bros., Inc. has more employees than the Underground cable (e.g., cable televisio median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 3.1 2.3 4 0 0
2023 2.9 0.7 4 0 0
2018 17.6 7.2 19 3 0
2017 17.3 11.8 21 1 0
2016 14.8 6.6 14 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · WI · De Pere

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 96 employers in De Pere, 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 West Union Trenching Inc. 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-NY-Colonie-Post Road 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-CA-San Diego-8225 Mercury Court 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-CA-Burbank-Kenwood St 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. G. Huston Co., Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction Resources Management, Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE AW Oakes & Son, Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malteurop 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belmark Wisconsin 1,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belmark De Pere 775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robinson Inc 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tweet/Garot Mechanical, Inc 550 FTE
NAT-TCR BC Steel Buildings 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Hills 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wadsworth Oh 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Owensboro Ky 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crown Pointe Care Center 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Augustine Renaissance 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Crossville 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Southside 128 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, 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.