Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing · Wisconsin

Rayovac - Fennimore

Fennimore, WI · ~277 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rayovac - Fennimore runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Rayovac - Fennimore: 4.1 TCR = 123% of Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rayovac - Fennimore safety composite

Rayovac - Fennimore scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

Rayovac - Fennimore: 3.5 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.09× in 2018

Rayovac - Fennimore's TCR rose 2.6 from 3.5 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335912 · Fennimore, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 123% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Brownstown Assembly
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~277 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brownstown Assembly (0.1 TCR gap)

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Rayovac - Fennimore in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rayovac - Fennimore averages 4.1 TCR (123% of the Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rayovac - Fennimore TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Rayovac - Fennimore falls in its industry

42 Alkaline cell primary batterie establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Alkaline cell primary batterie employers in Wisconsin.

Rayovac - Fennimore (277 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 181 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Rayovac - Fennimore
Rayovac - Fennimore (277 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 181 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Rayovac - Fennimore has more employees than the Alkaline cell primary batteries manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2018 6.1 0.4 8 8 0
2017 2.5 2.2 6 1 0
2016 3.5 3.1 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335912 · WI · Fennimore

42 Alkaline cell primary batteries manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 4 employers in Fennimore, 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 Brownstown Assembly 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flux Power 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ultium Cells, Lordstown 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Materials Division 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 847 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynamic Onalaska Campus 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE BELLIN HEALTH SYSTEMS-1600 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Energizer Holdings Inc. 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fennimore Plant 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Divine Rehabilitation and Nursing at Fennimore 77 FTE
NAT-TCR Emeritus At Amber Oaks 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Chandler ICF 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Go Green Commercial Cleaning, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 33 Southmoor Properties DBA Wheatridge Manor Care Center 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kammer/Mitchell 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Helpers Nursing Home, Inc. dba RiverLedge Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE MidSouth Food 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pentair Flow Technologies 277 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.