Applicators, wood, manufacturing · Nebraska

Hughes Brothers, Inc.

Seward, NE · ~282 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hughes Brothers, Inc. runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hughes Brothers, Inc.: 4.7 TCR = 142% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hughes Brothers, Inc. safety composite

Hughes Brothers, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Hughes Brothers, Inc.: 4.6 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

Hughes Brothers, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.0 from 4.6 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Seward, NE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 142% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK P49
  • PHOTO Stuart David Inc.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 105 inj
  • SIZE ~282 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stuart David Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hughes Brothers, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hughes Brothers, Inc. averages 4.7 TCR (142% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hughes Brothers, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hughes Brothers, Inc. falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hughes Brothers, Inc. (282 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hughes Brothers, Inc.
Hughes Brothers, Inc. (282 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hughes Brothers, Inc. has more employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 5.6 3.8 15 0 0
2023 4.5 2.3 12 0 0
2022 6.3 4.3 14 2 0
2021 4.1 2.5 10 0 0
2020 4.4 4.0 11 0 0
2019 5.4 3.1 14 0 0
2018 1.6 1.2 4 0 0
2017 5.8 4.1 14 0 0
2016 4.6 3.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · NE · Seward

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 22 employers in Seward, NE · 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 Stuart David Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clayton Supply Haleyville 1 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Graphik Dimensions 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duraflame East, LLC 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 790 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE Teledyne Instruments, Inc d/b/a Teledyne ISCO 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE Papillion Foods LLC 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE DLB Associates Consulting Engineers, PC 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tenneco-Seward 726 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tenneco - Seward 619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tenneco Inc 546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Health Care Systems 268 FTE
NAT-TCR Eckhart Woodworking, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Foodservice Pacific NW - 1017 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Schertz TX Yard 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa Terminal 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rug Doctor, LLC 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE 37 N Chemung Street Operating Company, LLC 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE UMC Delta Point 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Painting Ltd., Inc. 282 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, 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.