Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

The Scharine Group Inc.

Whitewater, WI · ~94 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Scharine Group Inc. runs at 574% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

The Scharine Group Inc.: 12.6 TCR = 574% of Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Scharine Group Inc. safety composite

The Scharine Group Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

The Scharine Group Inc.: 12.0 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 18.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2022

The Scharine Group Inc.'s TCR rose 3.8 from 12.0 in 2016 to 15.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 18.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Whitewater, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 574% of ind

  • DART 14.7 DART
  • RANK #27/29
  • PHOTO Hubbard-Phelps
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 86 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hubbard-Phelps (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Scharine Group Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Scharine Group Inc. averages 12.6 TCR (574% of the Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

The Scharine Group Inc. TCR series: 2016=12 · 2017=13.6 · 2018=18.7 · 2019=13.5 · 2020=9.1 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=15.8 · BLS 2.2

Where The Scharine Group Inc. falls in its industry

700 Agricultural machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 29 Agricultural machinery and equ employers in Wisconsin.

The Scharine Group Inc. (94 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Scharine Group Inc.
The Scharine Group Inc. (94 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

The Scharine Group Inc. has more employees than the Agricultural machinery and equipment mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 15.8 14.7 14 0 0
2021 5.7 3.4 5 0 0
2020 9.1 6.8 6 2 0
2019 13.5 5.6 12 0 0
2018 18.7 11.1 22 0 0
2017 13.6 10.2 16 0 0
2016 12.0 8.0 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · WI · Whitewater

700 Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 33 employers in Whitewater, 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 Hubbard-Phelps 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sauk Centre Store 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Equipment 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Charles Store 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Faulks Bros. Construction, Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fireline Sprinkler, LLC 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wall-Tech Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernatello's Pizza, Inc. - Kaukauna Manufacturing 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lavelle Industries Inc. Whitewater 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitewater 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1274 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1274 230 FTE
NAT-TCR 481375-Hou-River Oaks 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 396120-Okc-Penn 89 Sta 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 258480-Sault Sainte Marie Po 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corinth Rehabilitation Suites On The Parkway 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Hca-Henrico Doctors - Forest C 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCI Springfield Interior 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4765-MIACXB716 94 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.