Handtools, power-driven, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Imperial Blades

Sun Prairie, WI · ~95 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Imperial Blades runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Handtools, power-driven, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Imperial Blades: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Handtools, power-driven, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Imperial Blades safety composite

Imperial Blades scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Imperial Blades: 4.6 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2021

Imperial Blades's TCR rose 2.1 from 4.6 in 2018 to 6.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333991 · Sun Prairie, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Sun Prairie Operations
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun Prairie Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Imperial Blades in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Imperial Blades averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Handtools, power-driven, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Imperial Blades TCR series: 2018=4.6 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Imperial Blades falls in its industry

57 Handtools, power-driven, manuf establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Handtools, power-driven, manuf employers in Wisconsin.

Imperial Blades (95 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Imperial Blades
Imperial Blades (95 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Imperial Blades has fewer employees than the Handtools, power-driven, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2021 6.7 1.7 12 0 0
2020 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2019 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2018 4.6 1.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333991 · WI · Sun Prairie

57 Handtools, power-driven, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 69 employers in Sun Prairie, 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 Sun Prairie Operations 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenwood 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darex LLC. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gage Bilt Michigan 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cottage Grove 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCC - Appleton WI 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraemer North America - WI All Others 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Corporate 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sun Prairie Location 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1267 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR SUN PRAIRIE GENERAL OFC 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR CB Sun Prairie 275 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Muhlenberg College-Catering 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Detmar Logistics LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Willow 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NGDS 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5507 Toledo Manufacturing 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenwood Reporting Center 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE MVRBC - Springfield 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Hobart & William Smith Col-Com 95 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.