Nursery stock growing · Wisconsin

McKay Nursery Company

Waterloo, WI · ~144 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McKay Nursery Company runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade C.

McKay Nursery Company: 4.6 TCR = 102% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McKay Nursery Company safety composite

McKay Nursery Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.2

2018→2024

McKay Nursery Company injury rate improved

McKay Nursery Company's TCR fell 3.2 from 3.2 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.2 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Waterloo, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.6 · 102% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Central Sod
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Sod (0.0 TCR gap)

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McKay Nursery Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McKay Nursery Company averages 4.6 TCR (102% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

McKay Nursery Company TCR series: 2018=3.2 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where McKay Nursery Company falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Nursery stock growing employers in Wisconsin.

McKay Nursery Company (144 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate McKay Nursery Company
McKay Nursery Company (144 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

McKay Nursery Company has more employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 7.9 4.3 10 1 0
2022 5.4 0.0 8 0 0
2021 6.5 0.7 9 0 0
2018 3.2 3.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · WI · Waterloo

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 11 employers in Waterloo, 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 Central Sod 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evergreen Nursery Company, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Webster Nursery 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Casa Cristal Nursery, Inc. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dufeck Manufacturing Company 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheridan Random Lake 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riverside Machine & Engineering 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheehy Mail Contractors 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterloo 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sussek Machine Company 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Holten's, Inc. 125 FTE
NAT-TCR 0286 - Santa Ana 17th Street 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR KPSG / Custom Cooler Inc 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pwmnh 31036 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GRAFIX 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ashland Foundry & Machine Works, LLC 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merrick Industries, Inc. 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boulevard Temple Care Center 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE A&K Earthmovers 144 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, 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.