Drives, high-speed industrial (except hydrostatic), manufacturing · Wisconsin

Nord Gear Corp

Waunakee, WI · ~469 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nord Gear Corp runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Drives, high-speed industrial (except hydrostatic), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Nord Gear Corp: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Drives, high-speed industrial (except hydrostatic), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nord Gear Corp safety composite

Nord Gear Corp scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Nord Gear Corp: 2.8 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Nord Gear Corp's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.8 in 2021 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333612 · Waunakee, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO Hub City, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~469 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hub City, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nord Gear Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nord Gear Corp averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Drives, high-speed industrial (except hydrostatic), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nord Gear Corp TCR series: 2021=2.8 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Nord Gear Corp falls in its industry

106 Drives, high-speed industrial establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 12 Drives, high-speed industrial employers in Wisconsin.

Nord Gear Corp (469 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nord Gear Corp
Nord Gear Corp (469 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Nord Gear Corp has more employees than the Drives, high-speed industrial (except hy median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 3.4 2.5 15 0 0
2023 3.5 2.6 16 0 0
2022 4.1 2.7 20 0 0
2021 2.8 1.8 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333612 · WI · Waunakee

106 Drives, high-speed industrial (except hydrostatic), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 33 employers in Waunakee, 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 Hub City, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boston Gear 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nuttall Gear LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oliver Gear Inc. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Falk 469 FTE
STATE-SIZE OSI Industries, LLC 470 FTE
STATE-SIZE 099 ABC Supply Co., Inc 470 FTE
STATE-SIZE Janesville, DC 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR InterCon 707 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waunakee 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR SPL Waunakee 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR Suttle-Straus 169 FTE
NAT-TCR Dist. Wide 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Terminix Services Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trojan Battery Ann Street 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tnjac - Jackson 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE SSAB Iowa Inc. 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas Health Allen 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Construction Company, LLC 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plexus Manufacturing Solutions - Boise 469 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. 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.