Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Wisconsin

Veritas Steel Wausau

Wausau, WI · ~115 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Veritas Steel Wausau runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Veritas Steel Wausau: 7.1 TCR = 216% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Veritas Steel Wausau safety composite

Veritas Steel Wausau scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Veritas Steel Wausau: 2.6 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

Veritas Steel Wausau's TCR rose 9.0 from 2.6 in 2023 to 11.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Wausau, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 216% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #29/46
  • PHOTO Advanced Welding & S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Welding & Steel (0.0 TCR gap)

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Veritas Steel Wausau in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Veritas Steel Wausau averages 7.1 TCR (216% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Veritas Steel Wausau TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=11.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Veritas Steel Wausau falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 46 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Wisconsin.

Veritas Steel Wausau (115 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Veritas Steel Wausau
Veritas Steel Wausau (115 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Veritas Steel Wausau has more employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 11.6 5.8 14 0 0
2023 2.6 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · WI · Wausau

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 153 employers in Wausau, 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 Advanced Welding & Steel 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williams Form Engineering Nebraska 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fought and Company, Inc 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR S&S Steel Fabrication 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Area and Beloit Ops 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scott Construction Inc. 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Construction, Inc - WI- Milwaukee 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Construction, Inc-WI-Franksville 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Wausau Hospital 2,551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Inc 1,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Clinic Inc. 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork Co., Inc. 900 FTE
NAT-TCR Hofmann Sausage Co 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn Marriott Milpitas 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ATL-GH 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Snyder Manufacturing Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vancrest of Urbana 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingston Residence of Marion 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kemco Trucking, Inc 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kohlfeld Distributing, Inc. 115 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. 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.