Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers · Wisconsin

Wisconsin Branch

West Bend, WI · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wisconsin Branch runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Wisconsin Branch: 4.5 TCR = 205% of Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wisconsin Branch safety composite

Wisconsin Branch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Wisconsin Branch: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2018

Wisconsin Branch's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · West Bend, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 205% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #27/35
  • PHOTO Hudson CO
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hudson CO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wisconsin Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wisconsin Branch averages 4.5 TCR (205% of the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Wisconsin Branch TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Wisconsin Branch falls in its industry

766 Industrial chemicals merchant establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 35 Industrial chemicals merchant employers in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Branch (20 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wisconsin Branch
Wisconsin Branch (20 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Wisconsin Branch has fewer employees than the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesaler median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2018 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2017 9.4 9.4 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · WI · West Bend

766 Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 93 employers in West Bend, 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 Hudson CO 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR nexAir Jacksonville - Plant 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omaha OM 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. North Chicago 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alsum Farms Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE FGI West Salem 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE 760 Durand Agronomy 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE 764 Osseo Agronomy 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR FROEDTERT WEST BEND HOSPITAL 682 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital, West Bend 650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson School Bus Inc. 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR BSG Maintenance 345 FTE
NAT-TCR T.G. Lee - Orange City Plant 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington (GH) 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 095 ABC Supply Co., Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Auburn Hills Marriott Pontiac 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shared Services Group 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Hometown #545 (Mobridge, SD) 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Hometown #566 (Warroad, MN) 20 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: 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.