Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) · Wisconsin

Wayside Nurseries Inc

Mequon, WI · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wayside Nurseries Inc runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) workplace, earning a grade D.

Wayside Nurseries Inc: 5.5 TCR = 122% of Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wayside Nurseries Inc safety composite

Wayside Nurseries Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.8

2016→2024

Wayside Nurseries Inc injury rate improved

Wayside Nurseries Inc's TCR fell 9.8 from 9.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.8 · 2019=3.1 · 2021=9.6 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Mequon, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 122% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Plug Connection - Lodi
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plug Connection - Lodi (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wayside Nurseries Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wayside Nurseries Inc averages 5.5 TCR (122% of the Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS benchmark).

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

Wayside Nurseries Inc TCR series: 2016=9.8 · 2019=3.1 · 2021=9.6 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Wayside Nurseries Inc falls in its industry

386 Nursery with tree production ( establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Nursery with tree production ( employers in Wisconsin.

Wayside Nurseries Inc (30 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Wayside Nurseries Inc
Wayside Nurseries Inc (30 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Wayside Nurseries Inc has fewer employees than the Nursery with tree production (except for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2022 6.8 0.0 2 0 0
2021 9.6 3.2 3 0 0
2019 3.1 0.0 0 1 0
2016 9.8 0.0 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · WI · Mequon

386 Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 56 employers in Mequon, 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 Plug Connection - Lodi 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SURFACE NURSERY INC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR King City Transplanting 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gustine 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hwy 37 Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Mills Complex (LMC) 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tomah Receiving 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kirchner Custom Builders 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Automation- Mequon WI (MEQ) 1,137 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-WIMIL8 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR WIMIL8 ASCENSION COLUMBIA ST MARYS HOSP OZAUKEE 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR Silgan Specialty Packaging 263 FTE
NAT-TCR West Central Conservancy District 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dickerson Mechanical, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mentor 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Charms 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 01-Denton 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority - Dulles Toll Road 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winston Steel, LLC - Log Cabin 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martins Ferry Packaged Gas Plant 30 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, 2019, 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.