Wheelchairs manufacturing · Wisconsin

Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company)

New Berlin, WI · ~158 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company) runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Wheelchairs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company): 3.9 TCR = 117% of Wheelchairs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company) safety composite

Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.2

2021→2022

Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company) injury rate improved

Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company)'s TCR fell 5.2 from 6.4 in 2021 to 1.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.4 · 2022=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · New Berlin, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #12/15
  • PHOTO Galvion
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Galvion (0.0 TCR gap)

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Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company) averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Wheelchairs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company) TCR series: 2021=6.4 · 2022=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company) falls in its industry

555 Wheelchairs manufacturing establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 15 Wheelchairs manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company) (158 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company)
Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company) (158 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Permobil - New Berlin (aka Comfort Company) has more employees than the Wheelchairs manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2022 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2021 6.4 3.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · WI · New Berlin

555 Wheelchairs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 183 employers in New Berlin, 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 Galvion 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Structure Medical 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Labconco - Kansas City 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Simpson - NB 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evco Plastics - MED 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wisconsin Plastics 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE FALL RIVER FOUNDRY 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pieper Electric, Inc. 1,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5531 502 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milwaukee Office 425 FTE
CITY-NEAR KS Energy Services (New Berlin) 411 FTE
NAT-TCR Benchmark-SB 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1272 - Woodbury Mn Whse 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fox Chevrolet 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE BluSky - Centennial (Corporate) 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZATH 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE LHS Corporate Office and Warren County Service Center 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cottingham Operations Llc 158 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: 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.