Agar culture media manufacturing · Wisconsin

Madison West

Madison, WI · ~56 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Madison West runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Agar culture media manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Madison West: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Agar culture media manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Madison West safety composite

Madison West scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Madison West held a steady TCR band

Madison West's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · Madison, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO DeSoto, KS Facility
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DeSoto, KS Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Madison West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Madison West averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Agar culture media manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Madison West TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=3 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Madison West falls in its industry

234 Agar culture media manufacturi establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Agar culture media manufacturi employers in Wisconsin.

Madison West (56 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Madison West
Madison West (56 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Madison West has fewer employees than the Agar culture media manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2020 8.1 6.5 1 4 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · WI · Madison

234 Agar culture media manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 577 employers in Madison, 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 DeSoto, KS Facility 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snedden Drive 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elkhorn, NE Facility 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALLOGENE THERAPEUTICS 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pinnacle Dairy LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pulliam 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friendship Office 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bachmann Construction Co, Inc 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital - Madison 2,401 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meriter Hospital 2,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR EatStreet 1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR TDS - Junction Road (All Employees) 1,302 FTE
NAT-TCR ITC Manufacturing 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AF Steel Fabricators LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Texas PMW LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Armada - East Point 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE East Hanover Lanxess Corporation 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saxon 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHC Place Anniston 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Rock Insulation Nevada 56 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. 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.