Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground · Wisconsin

Michels Power- Brownsville

Brownsville, WI · ~117 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Michels Power- Brownsville runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade B.

Michels Power- Brownsville: 1.5 TCR = 55% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michels Power- Brownsville safety composite

Michels Power- Brownsville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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 Power- Brownsville: 0.9 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2019

Michels Power- Brownsville's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.9 in 2017 to 2.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Brownsville, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #11/40
  • PHOTO SAI Group NH
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SAI Group NH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Michels Power- Brownsville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Michels Power- Brownsville averages 1.5 TCR (55% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

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

Michels Power- Brownsville TCR series: 2017=0.9 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=2 · BLS 2.8

Where Michels Power- Brownsville falls in its industry

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 40 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Wisconsin.

Michels Power- Brownsville (117 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Michels Power- Brownsville
Michels Power- Brownsville (117 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Michels Power- Brownsville has more employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2019 2.0 0.7 3 0 0
2018 1.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · WI · Brownsville

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground 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 SAI Group NH 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITC Operations-319 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UTILITY LINES CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, LLC 110 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tower Systems Inc. 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gumz Muck Farms, LLC 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vita Plus Corporation 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFPI/ Universal Ventures II 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Packaging Corp - Germantown 117 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 Alpha Insulation & Waterproofing 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Gulf South District : SVC-Baton Rouge LA-USA 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RCL Services Group 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Beal Street Home 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orchard Ridge Center 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roger's Gardens Newport Beach 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Valley 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel Athletic Club 117 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.