Machine knives (except metal cutting) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Wisconsin Knife Works

Beloit, WI · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wisconsin Knife Works runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machine knives (except metal cutting) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Wisconsin Knife Works: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Machine knives (except metal cutting) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wisconsin Knife Works safety composite

Wisconsin Knife Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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 Knife Works: 2.9 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Wisconsin Knife Works's TCR rose 2.5 from 2.9 in 2020 to 5.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332216 · Beloit, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #7/14
  • PHOTO Jonesville Tool & Mf…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jonesville Tool & Mfg, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Wisconsin Knife Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wisconsin Knife Works averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Machine knives (except metal cutting) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wisconsin Knife Works TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Wisconsin Knife Works falls in its industry

174 Machine knives (except metal c establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 14 Machine knives (except metal c employers in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Knife Works (39 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wisconsin Knife Works
Wisconsin Knife Works (39 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Wisconsin Knife Works has fewer employees than the Machine knives (except metal cutting) ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 5.4 2.7 2 0 0
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2021 5.2 2.6 2 0 0
2020 2.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332216 · WI · Beloit

174 Machine knives (except metal cutting) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 110 employers in Beloit, 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 Jonesville Tool & Mfg, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cornwell Quality Tools Company 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Power Equipment Systems 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Fruit Equipment 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Bay Substation East 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ashland Service Center-5B 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE BCI Exteriors, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Horizon - Corporate Office 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - JVL1 1,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beloit Health System 1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kerry Ingredients 944 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kerry Beloit 938 FTE
NAT-TCR Mississippi Goodworks Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bedford 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR IND-ITP 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mediacom's Milton, FL. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Workplace Modular Systems, LLC 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ameristar Screen and Glass Atlanta 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3G Warehouse, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bob Sumerel Tire Co Inc. Columbus Location 223 39 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. 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.