Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture · Wisconsin

W.S Darley Apparatus

Chippewa Falls, WI · ~25 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W.S Darley Apparatus runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture workplace, earning a grade B.

W.S Darley Apparatus: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W.S Darley Apparatus safety composite

W.S Darley Apparatus scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

W.S Darley Apparatus held a steady TCR band

W.S Darley Apparatus's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=8.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336120 · Chippewa Falls, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/29
  • PHOTO Oakwood
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oakwood (0.0 TCR gap)

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W.S Darley Apparatus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W.S Darley Apparatus averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture BLS benchmark).

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

W.S Darley Apparatus TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=8 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where W.S Darley Apparatus falls in its industry

124 Assembly plants, heavy trucks, establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 29 Assembly plants, heavy trucks, employers in Wisconsin.

W.S Darley Apparatus (25 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate W.S Darley Apparatus
W.S Darley Apparatus (25 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.5

W.S Darley Apparatus has fewer employees than the Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.0 4.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336120 · WI · Chippewa Falls

124 Assembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 112 employers in Chippewa Falls, 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 Oakwood 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daimler Truck North America - Custom Truck Services (Cleveland) 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peterbilt Paccar 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hino Motors Manufacturing USA 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fergusons Minnesota Harvest LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minocqua Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Janesville Headquarters 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berlin Office 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR TTM Technologies Chippewa Falls 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5373 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR River Country Co-op 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR TTM Technologies 457 FTE
NAT-TCR Holt Services Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NC Rental Tukwila 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Reotemp Instrument Corporation 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Burbank, CA 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE M Contractors, LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holbrook Lumber Co Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACSCO Products, Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Labor Resources 25 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.