Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) · Wisconsin

Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville

Brownsville, WI · ~215 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) workplace, earning a grade A.

Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville: 1.0 TCR = 36% of Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville safety composite

Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2021

Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Brownsville, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 36% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #6/15
  • PHOTO Mechanical Construct…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~215 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mechanical Construction Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville averages 1.0 TCR (36% of the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS benchmark).

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

Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=1.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville falls in its industry

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 15 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und employers in Wisconsin.

Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville (215 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville
Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville (215 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Michels Directional Crossings- Brownsville has more employees than the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground c median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2021 1.3 1.0 4 0 0
2020 1.3 1.0 4 0 0
2019 1.2 1.2 3 0 0
2018 1.4 0.0 3 0 0
2017 0.9 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · WI · Brownsville

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 20 employers in Brownsville, 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 Mechanical Construction Services, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 108000 - Lima Wharf H2O Guam JV 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Dredge & Dock 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turner at Formosa Plastics Corporation Baton Rouge LA 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spirit Construction, Inc. 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoffman Construction Company 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glenroy, Inc. 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phillips-Medisize LLC - Custom 2 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michels Corporation-WI-Brownsville 654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michels Pipeline Inc-WI-Brownsville 609 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michels Fleet- WI- B 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michels Fleet- Brownsville 320 FTE
NAT-TCR Ethicon, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Peerless Instrument 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Owens Corning Jackson TN 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Creative Foam Corp. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 7371-Enphg-Bucknell University 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE INDUSTRIAL IRON WORKS, INC., dba 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joplin Cereal Division 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHRISTUS Spohn Kleberg 215 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.