Paper, building, merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

Portage

Portage, WI · ~202 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Portage runs at 426% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Paper, building, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Portage: 9.4 TCR = 426% of Paper, building, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Portage safety composite

Portage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−126.8

2016→2024

Portage injury rate improved

Portage's TCR fell 126.8 from 137.4 in 2016 to 10.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 137.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=137.4 · 2017=12.8 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=12.2 · 2020=12.3 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=10.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423390 · Portage, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 426% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO NKYOPS-PDM-NORTH KY …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 170 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NKYOPS-PDM-NORTH KY OPS (0.1 TCR gap)

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Portage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Portage averages 9.4 TCR (426% of the Paper, building, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Portage TCR series: 2016=137.4 · 2017=12.8 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=12.2 · 2020=12.3 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=10.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Portage falls in its industry

168 Paper, building, merchant whol establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Paper, building, merchant whol employers in Wisconsin.

Portage (202 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Portage
Portage (202 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Portage has more employees than the Paper, building, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 10.6 9.1 28 1 0
2023 9.4 7.8 24 0 0
2022 5.7 4.5 13 2 0
2021 8.9 3.5 20 5 0
2020 12.3 10.1 39 1 0
2019 12.2 8.8 35 4 0
2018 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2017 12.8 10.9 4 3 0
2016 137.4 68.7 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423390 · WI · Portage

168 Paper, building, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 40 employers in Portage, 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 NKYOPS-PDM-NORTH KY OPS 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Architectural Surfaces Fife 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AIG Florida 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Architectural Granite and Marble Lenexa 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Haas Sons, Inc. 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sofidel 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial US, Others 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Professional Plating, Inc. 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Divine Savior Hospital, Clinics and Homecare 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Divine Savior 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR SGPPL-Portage 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1799 347 FTE
NAT-TCR Belmont Village San Jose 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses & Ivy Elder Care, Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CC&F Retail, Inc (dba Coffee Cup #4) 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cadillac Coffee Co. - Troy 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Port City Metal Services 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas NV FXFE-LVS 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tank Connection 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE NIC Global-TN 202 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, 2017, 2016. 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.