Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton

Hixton, WI · ~37 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton runs at 332% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton: 11.0 TCR = 332% of Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton safety composite

Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−28.9

2016→2024

Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton injury rate improved

Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton's TCR fell 28.9 from 33.4 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 33.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=33.4 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=10.0 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=8.0 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Hixton, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 332% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #38/46
  • PHOTO MMW Fabrication, Ltd
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MMW Fabrication, Ltd (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton averages 11.0 TCR (332% of the Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton TCR series: 2016=33.4 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=10 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=3 · 2022=8 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton falls in its industry

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 46 Structural steel, fabricated, employers in Wisconsin.

Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton (37 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton
Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton (37 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Nick's Welding & Fabricating Hixton has fewer employees than the Structural steel, fabricated, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 4.5 0.0 2 0 0
2023 9.8 2.4 4 0 0
2022 8.0 5.3 3 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2019 10.0 5.0 4 0 0
2018 13.9 11.6 6 0 0
2016 33.4 3.0 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · WI · Hixton

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 3 employers in Hixton, 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 MMW Fabrication, Ltd 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greco Steel Products, Inc 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIELD ERECTION DIVISION 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evans Metal Products Co Inc 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Habelman Bros. Company 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lamers Dairy, Inc 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wissota Hydro Plant 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stevens Point 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Fresh LLC 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hixton Regional Office 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Dykes Lumber Co. Inc. 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Moving Systems Inc. 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1114 - NSM Nyberg Rivers 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Joseph Living Center 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nugent Electric Inc 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bates Engineers 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kings Aire, Inc 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kentucky BioProcessing 37 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.