Foundries, steel investment · Wisconsin

Signicast - Brown Deer Castings

Name: Signicast - Brown Deer Castings Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Milwaukee, WI · ~139 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Signicast - Brown Deer Castings runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Foundries, steel investment workplace, earning a grade D.

Signicast - Brown Deer Castings: 6.5 TCR = 196% of Foundries, steel investment BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Signicast - Brown Deer Castings safety composite

Signicast - Brown Deer Castings scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−0.4

2016→2017

Signicast - Brown Deer Castings injury rate improved

Signicast - Brown Deer Castings's TCR fell 0.4 from 6.7 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2017=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331512 · Milwaukee, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 196% of ind

DART 5.6 DART
RANK #11/15
PHOTO American Casting Com…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 18 inj
SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Casting Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.5
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6.5
HIGHLAND LAKES

6.5
Wisconsin Prec

6.4

What this shows Signicast - Brown Deer Castings averages 6.5 TCR (196% of the Foundries, steel investment BLS benchmark).

Signicast - Brown Deer Castings TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Signicast - Brown Deer Castings falls in its industry

89 Foundries, steel investment establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 15 Foundries, steel investment employers in Wisconsin.

Signicast - Brown Deer Castings (139 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Signicast - Brown Deer Castings has more employees than the Foundries, steel investment median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2017	6.3	5.6	9	0	0
2016	6.7	5.2	9	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331512 · WI · Milwaukee

89 Foundries, steel investment employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 980 employers in Milwaukee, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	American Casting Company	HOLLISTER, CA	6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HIGHLAND LAKES CASTING, INC.	MARBLE FALLS, TX	6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SIGNICAST LLC	HARTFORD, WI	6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Wisconsin Precision Casting	EAST TROY, WI	6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Staff Electric Comany, Inc.	MONONA	139 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Current Electric Company	WAUWATOSA	139 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Coenen Mechanical, LLC	APPLETON	139 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BrandSafway Industries LLC - Husky Superior Refinery - WI	SUPERIOR	139 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center	Milwaukee	7,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FROEDTERT HOSPITAL	Milwaukee	7,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Milwaukee Hospital	Milwaukee	3,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Childrens Hospital - Milw Campus	Milwaukee	2,851 FTE
NAT-TCR	Riverbend Assisted Living Community	Jeffersonville, IN	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fairfield Works - Flat Rolled	Farifield, AL	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	George's Springdale Feed Mill	Springdale, AR	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Maspeth (Nymas)	Maspeth, NY	6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Ahlstrom Filtration LLC - Madisonville	Madisonville, KY	139 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NAPP Cambridge	Cambridge, MD	139 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Suffolk Village (Vasfk)	Suffolk, VA	139 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wadsworth (Ohwad)	Wadsworth, OH	139 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.

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