Windows, wood and covered wood, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05

Ladysmith, WI · ~295 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 runs at 304% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Windows, wood and covered wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05: 10.0 TCR = 304% of Windows, wood and covered wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 safety composite

Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−7.0

2016→2024

Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 injury rate improved

Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05's TCR fell 7.0 from 14.8 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.8 · 2018=12.8 · 2019=11.5 · 2020=8.0 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321911 · Ladysmith, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 304% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #30/33
  • PHOTO Doors West Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 164 inj
  • SIZE ~295 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Doors West Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 averages 10.0 TCR (304% of the Windows, wood and covered wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 TCR series: 2016=14.8 · 2018=12.8 · 2019=11.5 · 2020=8 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 falls in its industry

452 Windows, wood and covered wood establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 33 Windows, wood and covered wood employers in Wisconsin.

Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 (295 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05
Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 (295 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 has more employees than the Windows, wood and covered wood, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 7.7 5.6 14 4 0
2023 8.2 3.0 11 8 0
2022 7.5 2.1 12 10 0
2021 9.7 4.0 14 13 0
2020 8.0 4.6 21 0 0
2019 11.5 5.8 20 10 0
2018 12.8 7.9 38 4 0
2016 14.8 6.8 34 16 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321911 · WI · Ladysmith

452 Windows, wood and covered wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 20 employers in Ladysmith, 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 Doors West Inc. 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endura Products Inc-Wood Plant 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PWD NJ/NY LLC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR RAM Industries, LLC 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mad City Windows and Baths, LLC 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worthington Cylinders Chilton 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2813 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland - MI 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Automation- Ladysmith WI (LAD) 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4281 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4281 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rands Trucking,Inc 165 FTE
NAT-TCR UMC Delta Point 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hendrick Hospice Care 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RET-SBR Store 11 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wrico Stamping Company of Florida 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE TNN 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Black & McDonald - Kansas City 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE 330 S. Service Road 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE IKEA #212 Bloomington 295 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.