Leather footwear manufacturing · Wisconsin

Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill

Merrill, WI · ~200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Leather footwear manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill: 8.8 TCR = 265% of Leather footwear manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill safety composite

Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill: 7.8 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2021

Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill's TCR rose 2.0 from 7.8 in 2020 to 9.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 316210 · Merrill, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 265% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK P5
  • PHOTO McRae Footwear Finis…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McRae Footwear Finishing/Shipping (0.1 TCR gap)

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Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill averages 8.8 TCR (265% of the Leather footwear manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill TCR series: 2020=7.8 · 2021=9.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill falls in its industry

62 Leather footwear manufacturing establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill (200 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill
Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill (200 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill has more employees than the Leather footwear manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2021 9.7 5.8 19 1 0
2020 7.8 5.0 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

316210 · WI · Merrill

62 Leather footwear manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 49 employers in Merrill, 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 McRae Footwear Finishing/Shipping 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norway Manufacturing 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodlore Cedar Products 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Wing Shoe Co. Potosi 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockland FLooring 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUSSEX WI - HIGH TECH CNTR 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olympus Group Inc 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrill Area Public Schools 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1366 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1366 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lincoln Wood Products 174 FTE
NAT-TCR CSM Bakery Solutions - Bonner Springs 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Greydale Global Logistics LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Richfield Municipal Center - Public Safety 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Performance Denver - 1024 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cadence Inc. Virginia 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colony Factory Crafted Homes 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seymour Operations 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sringdale 200 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: 2021, 2020. 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.