Books merchant wholesalers · Nebraska

Nebraska Book Company

Lincoln, NE · ~326 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nebraska Book Company runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Books merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Nebraska Book Company: 3.4 TCR = 154% of Books merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nebraska Book Company safety composite

Nebraska Book Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Nebraska Book Company: 0.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2022

Nebraska Book Company's TCR rose 7.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 7.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424920 · Lincoln, NE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 154% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK P60
  • PHOTO Ogden Distribution C…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~326 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ogden Distribution Center (0.1 TCR gap)

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Nebraska Book Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nebraska Book Company averages 3.4 TCR (154% of the Books merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Nebraska Book Company TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=3 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=7.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Nebraska Book Company falls in its industry

57 Books merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Nebraska Book Company (326 employees, TCR 3.4) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nebraska Book Company
Nebraska Book Company (326 employees, TCR 3.4) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Nebraska Book Company has more employees than the Books merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2022 7.3 4.3 12 0 0
2021 8.8 3.4 21 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 6 0 0
2019 1.1 0.7 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424920 · NE · Lincoln

57 Books merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 496 employers in Lincoln, NE · 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 Ogden Distribution Center 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4206-42060003-200000 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker & Taylor Momence 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barnes and Noble Distribution Center 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Packaged Meats 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cohere Beauty Omaha 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gavilon Corporate Office 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincoln Surgical Hospital 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet Servicing LLC 2,850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet - Lincoln HQ 2,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bryan East Campus 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR FACTS Education Corporation 1,986 FTE
NAT-TCR 2904-ASM-MA 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeside Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mando America Corporation - A2 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ISD 276 Minnetonka Comm Ed Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE El Encanto, Inc. dba Bueno Foods 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manufacturing - Bakery 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6925-TPA 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE FiberTel LLC 326 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.