Abrasives merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial

Milwaukee, WI · ~17 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial runs at 489% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Abrasives merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial: 10.8 TCR = 489% of Abrasives merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial safety composite

Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.1

2020→2021

Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial injury rate improved

Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial's TCR fell 9.1 from 15.3 in 2020 to 6.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=15.3 · 2021=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Milwaukee, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 489% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/25
  • PHOTO Ram Tool Constructio…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Corpus Christi (0.2 TCR gap)

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Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial averages 10.8 TCR (489% of the Abrasives merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial TCR series: 2020=15.3 · 2021=6.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial falls in its industry

589 Abrasives merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 25 Abrasives merchant wholesalers employers in Wisconsin.

Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial (17 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial
Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial (17 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Milwaukee, WI - BlackHawk Industrial has fewer employees than the Abrasives merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 6.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 15.3 15.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · WI · Milwaukee

589 Abrasives merchant wholesalers 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Corpus Christi 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morrisette Paper Company - Danville 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR McGill Hose 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 200515 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE PortSide Builders - Neenah 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mission Support Services, LLC 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jens Construction Corp. 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 17 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 CA Facility 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Far 66 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 220600-Biddeford Po 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CM Gard. ME 10.8 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.