Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Nelson Global Products - Viroqua

Viroqua, WI · ~180 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Nelson Global Products - Viroqua runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nelson Global Products - Viroqua: 1.3 TCR = 25% of Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Global Products - Viroqua safety composite

Nelson Global Products - Viroqua scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% 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).

B

78/100

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
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.0

2016→2024

Nelson Global Products - Viroqua injury rate improved

Nelson Global Products - Viroqua's TCR fell 4.0 from 4.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.0 · 2017=2.7 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Viroqua, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/23
  • PHOTO Nelson Global Produc…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson Global Products - Viroqua in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson Global Products - Viroqua averages 1.3 TCR (25% of the Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson Global Products - Viroqua TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=2.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 5.4

Where Nelson Global Products - Viroqua falls in its industry

772 Exhaust and tail pipes, automo establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 23 Exhaust and tail pipes, automo employers in Wisconsin.

Nelson Global Products - Viroqua (180 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelson Global Products - Viroqua
Nelson Global Products - Viroqua (180 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 - Viroqua has more employees than the Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truc 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.7 0.0 0 1 0
2022 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.7 1.4 3 3 0
2016 4.0 2.8 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · WI · Viroqua

772 Exhaust and tail pipes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 17 employers in Viroqua, 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 Nelson Global Products - Black River Falls 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAK, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Wheel 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITW Automotive Fuel Systems 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milwaukee WI (Sandwich Bros) 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aacer Flooring 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Pallet Corp. 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Memorial Healthcare 442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Memorial Hospital 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 971 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR 971 206 FTE
NAT-TCR HF San Ramon CA 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vortex Colorado - DAL 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR A.M. Ag Enterprise, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ball Beverage Pkg 153 Findlay 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA IL Kankakee Plant 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry Schein, Inc. 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dart Logistics Services - Walnut 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Los Angeles Office 180 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.