Aluminum die-casting foundries · Wisconsin

Signicast Brown Deer

Milwaukee, WI · ~137 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Signicast Brown Deer runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Aluminum die-casting foundries workplace, earning a grade F.

Signicast Brown Deer: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Aluminum die-casting foundries BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Signicast Brown Deer safety composite

Signicast Brown Deer scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−1.6

2021→2024

Signicast Brown Deer injury rate improved

Signicast Brown Deer's TCR fell 1.6 from 2.7 in 2021 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.7 · 2022=13.2 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331523 · Milwaukee, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #15/20
  • PHOTO American Light Metal…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Light Metals, LLC DBA Empire Die Casting Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Signicast Brown Deer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Signicast Brown Deer averages 6.7 TCR (202% of the Aluminum die-casting foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Signicast Brown Deer TCR series: 2021=2.7 · 2022=13.2 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Signicast Brown Deer falls in its industry

221 Aluminum die-casting foundries establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 20 Aluminum die-casting foundries employers in Wisconsin.

Signicast Brown Deer (137 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Signicast Brown Deer
Signicast Brown Deer (137 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Signicast Brown Deer has more employees than the Aluminum die-casting foundries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 9.6 7.9 11 0 0
2022 13.2 12.5 21 0 0
2021 2.7 1.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331523 · WI · Milwaukee

221 Aluminum die-casting foundries 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR American Light Metals, LLC DBA Empire Die Casting Co. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Ridge Pressure Castings 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ozark Die Casting Two 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spartan Light Metal Products, Hannibal, MO 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poblocki Paving Corp. 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seneca Foods Corporation - Cambria East 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meister Cheese Company LLC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Germantown Container 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 7,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR FROEDTERT HOSPITAL 7,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milwaukee Hospital 3,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital - Milw Campus 2,851 FTE
NAT-TCR Abbott Furnace Company 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Plains Equipment Burlington 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 5306 - Indian Trail 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 06611 - Artistree Dfw Airport 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHC Healthcare Fort Oglethorpe 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Solutions Group 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cook County Hospital District 137 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.