Shower rods, metal, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc.

Milwaukee, WI · ~188 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc. runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Shower rods, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc.: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Shower rods, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc. safety composite

Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc.: 5.4 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2020

Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.9 from 5.4 in 2019 to 7.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Milwaukee, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #46/73
  • PHOTO Basin Material Handl…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Basin Material Handling-Indiana (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc. averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Shower rods, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc. TCR series: 2019=5.4 · 2020=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc. falls in its industry

827 Shower rods, metal, manufactur establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 73 Shower rods, metal, manufactur employers in Wisconsin.

Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc. (188 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc.
Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc. (188 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Midwest Products & Engineering, Inc. has more employees than the Shower rods, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020 7.3 1.5 10 0 0
2019 5.4 2.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · WI · Milwaukee

827 Shower rods, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 980 employers in Milwaukee, 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 Basin Material Handling-Indiana 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Majestic Metals, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Control Products 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Systems, LLC 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lemberg Electric 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saputo Cheese USA Inc Belmont 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bemis North America - Lancaster 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Molded Rubber and Plastics 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 7,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR FROEDTERT HOSPITAL 7,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milwaukee Hospital 3,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital - Milw Campus 2,851 FTE
NAT-TCR ESA 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery Park 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Line Driver Terminal 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial & Wholesale Lumber, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cambridge 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-Atlantic Cooperative Solutions Inc. dba Aero Energy 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Orlando 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE E.S. Robbins Corporation 188 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.