Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade · Wisconsin

Indianhead Plating Inc.

Name: Indianhead Plating Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Chippewa Falls, WI · ~90 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Indianhead Plating Inc. runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Indianhead Plating Inc.: 6.2 TCR = 186% of Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Indianhead Plating Inc. safety composite

Indianhead Plating Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.44 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

Indianhead Plating Inc.: 3.6 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2020

Indianhead Plating Inc.'s TCR rose 4.4 from 3.6 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Chippewa Falls, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 186% of ind

DART 3.4 DART
RANK #18/23
PHOTO Franke Plating Works
BOOK 4y book
INJ 21 inj
SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Franke Plating Works (0.0 TCR gap)

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Franke Plating

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What this shows Indianhead Plating Inc. averages 6.2 TCR (186% of the Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

Indianhead Plating Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Indianhead Plating Inc. falls in its industry

585 Chrome plating metals and meta establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 23 Chrome plating metals and meta employers in Wisconsin.

Indianhead Plating Inc. (90 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Indianhead Plating Inc. has more employees than the Chrome plating metals and metal products median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2020	8.0	3.4	6	1
2019	7.4	3.2	7	0
2018	5.5	2.2	5	0
2017	3.6	2.4	3	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · WI · Chippewa Falls

585 Chrome plating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 112 employers in Chippewa Falls, 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	Franke Plating Works	FORT WAYNE, IN	6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Arcadia Inc. - AAC	VERNON, CA	6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Eastern Plating, LLC	NEWPORT, TN	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Independent Plating	WORCESTER, MA	6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Dairyland Seed	KEWASKUM	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gabe's Construction	SHEBOYGAN	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CBC - Verona	VERONA	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Madison WI Branch	MADISON	90 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TTM Technologies Chippewa Falls	Chippewa Falls	649 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 5373	Chippewa Falls	528 FTE
CITY-NEAR	River Country Co-op	Chippewa Falls	499 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TTM Technologies	Chippewa Falls	457 FTE
NAT-TCR	Southwestern Medical Clinic Stevensville	Stevensville, MI	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Food Safety Net Services, Ltd - Atlanta Lab	Tucker, GA	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sharp Mary Birch Hospital-MB	San Diego, CA	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	1081-Home Cre of the Carolinas-Stn	Albemarle, NC	6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Anderson Technologies, Inc.	Grand Haven, MI	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Auto Safety House Phoenix	Phoenix, AZ	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Riverside Center for Rehabilitlation and Nursing	Castleton, NY	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Aluminum Precision Products Oxnard	Oxnard, CA	90 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.