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

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats

Wittenberg, WI · ~94 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats safety composite

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

−7.4

2016→2017

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats injury rate improved

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats's TCR fell 7.4 from 7.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.4 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.4 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/52
  • PHOTO Charcuterie Artisans…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Charcuterie Artisans (Creminelli Fine Meats, LLC) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats 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 averages 3.7 TCR (113% 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 TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #26 safest of 52 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in Wisconsin.

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats (94 employees, TCR 3.7) 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
Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats (94 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats has fewer employees than the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha median and a lower 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
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.4 3.0 5 0 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 Charcuterie Artisans (Creminelli Fine Meats, LLC) 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fells Point LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stock Yards Chicago 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ProPortion Foods LLC 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Faulks Bros. Construction, Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fireline Sprinkler, LLC 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wall-Tech Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernatello's Pizza, Inc. - Kaukauna Manufacturing 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ho-chunk gaming Wittenberg 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Manufacturing Plant 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Distribution Center 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homme Home of Wittengerg 96 FTE
NAT-TCR K5 - Roosevelt Blvd 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lightlife Foods, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Samuel Toledo 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom-Crete, Dallas 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Accent Display Corp. 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salude - The Art of Rceovery 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cei Dallas Tecta America Company 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryerson- Los Angeles 94 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: 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.