Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · Wisconsin

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant

Wittenberg, WI · ~133 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant: 5.9 TCR = 180% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant safety composite

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant held a steady TCR band

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 4.3 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.3 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=5.8 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=10.5 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Wittenberg, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 180% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #35/52
  • PHOTO Stevison Ham Company
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stevison Ham Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant averages 5.9 TCR (180% of the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant TCR series: 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=5.8 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=10.5 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 52 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in Wisconsin.

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant (133 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant
Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant (133 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant has fewer employees than the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 4.3 1.7 4 1 0
2023 10.5 7.9 11 1 0
2022 6.4 6.4 7 0 0
2020 5.8 3.5 5 0 0
2019 4.3 3.5 4 1 0
2018 4.3 0.9 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · WI · Wittenberg

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 14 employers in Wittenberg, 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 Stevison Ham Company 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckhead Meat and Seafood of Central Florida 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rich Products 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nettles Sausage, Inc. 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Energy Center 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Asphalt, Inc. - Green Bay 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Construction, Inc-WI-Lomira 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 1 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ho-chunk gaming Wittenberg 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Distribution Center 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homme Home of Wittengerg 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats 94 FTE
NAT-TCR Quaglino Roofing 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Construction Corp 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TPI Arecibo 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Progressive Foam Technologies Beach City 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Structural #30 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Embry Riddle Resident Dining 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Select Specialty Hospital - Orlando North 133 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.