Air bag assemblies manufacturing · Wisconsin

Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls

Name: Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Black River Falls, WI · ~171 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 5.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Air bag assemblies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls: 1.3 TCR = 25% of Air bag assemblies manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls safety composite

Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls: 1.1 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2018

Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.1 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Black River Falls, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 25% of ind

DART 0.5 DART
RANK #6/23
PHOTO Nelson Global Produc…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nelson Global Products - Viroqua (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.3
Nelson Global

1.3

What this shows Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls averages 1.3 TCR (25% of the Air bag assemblies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2018=1.5 · BLS 5.4

Where Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls falls in its industry

772 Air bag assemblies manufacturi establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

Grade A

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 23 Air bag assemblies manufacturi employers in Wisconsin.

Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls (171 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls has more employees than the Air bag assemblies manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2018	1.5	0.5	3	0	0
2017	1.1	0.0	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · WI · Black River Falls

772 Air bag assemblies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 26 employers in Black River Falls, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Nelson Global Products - Viroqua	VIROQUA, WI	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BAK, Inc.	SPRINGFIELD, MO	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JR Wheel	NORTON, OH	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ITW Automotive Fuel Systems	MOKENA, IL	1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	MGB plant	GREEN BAY	171 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Voith US Inc. - Appleton Fabrics	APPLETON	171 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Inland Label and Marketing Service, LLC - 2	LA CROSSE	171 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Browntown Foundry	BROWNTOWN	171 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MILLIS TRANSFER LLC	Black River Falls	961 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lunda Construction	Black River Falls	578 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Black River Memorial Hospital	Black River Falls	296 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ho-Chunk Gaming Black River Falls and Tomah	Black River Falls	285 FTE
NAT-TCR	Kraton Panama City	Panama City, FL	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kaeser - Headquarters	Fredericksburg, VA	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ryan Construction, Inc.	Walpole, MA	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	MSC Cedar Court	Charlottesville, VA	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Essentra HCP Manati	Manati, PR	171 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Heartland Health Care Center - Jacksonville	Jacksonville, FL	171 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bemis North America - Akron	Akron, OH	171 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Benchmark Wellington SNF Operator LLC	West Chester, PA	171 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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