Milking machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Wm. Nobbe & Company

Waterloo, IL · ~251 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Wm. Nobbe & Company runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milking machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Wm. Nobbe & Company: 5.0 TCR = 229% of Milking machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wm. Nobbe & Company safety composite

Wm. Nobbe & Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 43% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Wm. Nobbe & Company: 4.3 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2019

Wm. Nobbe & Company's TCR rose 1.0 from 4.3 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Waterloo, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 229% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #22/43
  • PHOTO Jenner Ag Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~251 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jenner Ag Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wm. Nobbe & Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wm. Nobbe & Company averages 5.0 TCR (229% of the Milking machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Wm. Nobbe & Company TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=5.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Wm. Nobbe & Company falls in its industry

700 Milking machinery and equipmen establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 43 Milking machinery and equipmen employers in Illinois.

Wm. Nobbe & Company (251 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wm. Nobbe & Company
Wm. Nobbe & Company (251 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Wm. Nobbe & Company has more employees than the Milking machinery and equipment merchant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2019 5.4 1.8 15 0 0
2018 5.3 1.1 15 0 1
2017 5.1 0.8 12 1 0
2016 4.3 1.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IL · Waterloo

700 Milking machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 20 employers in Waterloo, IL · 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 Jenner Ag Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jasper GA 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goldman Equipment, LLC - Stacy 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bolingbrook 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weiman Products, LLC 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coilcraft, Cary 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1519 GEODIS LOGISTICS 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 328 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR 328 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR OakHill 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monroe County 177 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Greenwood 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #166 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Willow Valley Manor 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1009 - BELFOR Orlando FL 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverside Doctors Hospital Williamsburg-163 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookings Sunrise 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE MEDCO 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bruce Mansfield 251 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: 2019, 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.