Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe · Wisconsin

Ward Nipple

West Allis, WI · ~65 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ward Nipple runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe workplace, earning a grade D.

Ward Nipple: 6.1 TCR = 185% of Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ward Nipple safety composite

Ward Nipple scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Ward Nipple: 6.7 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2023

Ward Nipple's TCR rose 0.5 from 6.7 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332996 · West Allis, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #14/20
  • PHOTO Progressive Pipe Fab…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Progressive Pipe Fabricators (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ward Nipple in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ward Nipple averages 6.1 TCR (185% of the Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe BLS benchmark).

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

Ward Nipple TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=12.3 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=4 · 2023=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Ward Nipple falls in its industry

337 Nipples, metal, made from purc establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 20 Nipples, metal, made from purc employers in Wisconsin.

Ward Nipple (65 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 Ward Nipple
Ward Nipple (65 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ward Nipple has more employees than the Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023 7.3 3.6 4 0 0
2022 4.0 2.0 1 1 0
2021 5.3 5.3 3 0 0
2020 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2019 6.3 3.8 5 0 0
2018 4.2 1.4 3 0 0
2017 12.3 12.3 6 1 0
2016 6.7 2.2 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332996 · WI · West Allis

337 Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 104 employers in West Allis, 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 Progressive Pipe Fabricators 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PIPELINE MACHINE COMPANY - 621 PMC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woolf Aircraft Products, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Tube & Conduit Kokomo In 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABS Global - Leeds 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE I E I GENERAL CONTRACTORS INC 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reesman's Excavating and Grading 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE The State Group Industrial USA Limited - Division 48 Wisconsin 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora West Allis Medical Center 2,195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winter Services, LLC 1,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clean Power 1,104 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02-Milwaukee 554 FTE
NAT-TCR Sanderson Farms St. Pauls Hatchery 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR United 363 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Code Welding & Mfg. Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Trim-Rite Food Corporation 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE TCH Hale Ave 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Production Facility 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rockford Fasteners 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman 65 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.