Pens manufacturing · Wisconsin

Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis

West Allis, WI · ~161 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pens manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Pens manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis safety composite

Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis: 4.6 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2017

Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis's TCR rose 0.5 from 4.6 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339940 · West Allis, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO LVIP
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LVIP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis averages 4.9 TCR (148% of the Pens manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis falls in its industry

56 Pens manufacturing establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Pens manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis (161 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis
Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis (161 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Industries for the Blind, Inc. - West Allis has more employees than the Pens manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2017 5.1 2.6 4 2 0
2016 4.6 1.5 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339940 · WI · West Allis

56 Pens manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 104 employers in West Allis, 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 LVIP 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCA Linden 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden Norwich Location 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indiana Stamp Co., Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vinton Construction Company 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Monte Foods-Markesan 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wisconsin Production Plant 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE WI02 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora West Allis Medical Center 2,195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winter Services, LLC 1,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clean Power 1,104 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02-Milwaukee 554 FTE
NAT-TCR Mountain Park Health Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0020 3572 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3201 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Havelock (Nchav) 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pototoc Spring 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0024 0053 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bremerton (Wabre) 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norfolk (Vanor) 161 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: 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.