Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing · Wisconsin

Mellen

Mellen, WI · ~185 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mellen runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Mellen: 4.1 TCR = 125% of Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mellen safety composite

Mellen scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Mellen: 2.3 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Mellen's TCR rose 2.6 from 2.3 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321211 · Mellen, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 125% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #3/12
  • PHOTO OGB Architectural Mi…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OGB Architectural Millwork (0.1 TCR gap)

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Mellen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mellen averages 4.1 TCR (125% of the Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mellen TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=6 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Mellen falls in its industry

116 Hardwood veneer or plywood man establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 12 Hardwood veneer or plywood man employers in Wisconsin.

Mellen (185 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Mellen
Mellen (185 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Mellen has more employees than the Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 4.9 3.5 7 0 0
2023 3.3 2.6 5 0 0
2022 5.6 3.1 8 1 0
2021 3.6 1.8 6 0 0
2020 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2019 6.0 2.7 10 1 0
2018 2.9 2.4 6 0 0
2017 6.7 4.3 14 0 0
2016 2.3 1.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321211 · WI · Mellen

116 Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 5 employers in Mellen, 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 OGB Architectural Millwork 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADORN CUSTOM VINYLS #140 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veneer Technologies Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAVCO INDUSTRIES INC 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE PROCESSING PLANT 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABC Truss - Chetek 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Times Printing, LLC 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butler, WI 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Country Lumber CO., Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR School District of Mellen 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Kilns 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mellen Manor 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Public Works 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 55 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oakwood Contractors Inc 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #0042 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oil Capital Electric, LLC 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region- South Charlotte Office 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaVergne 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCCo-CT 185 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, 2017, 2016. 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.