State profile · OSHA ITA
Nebraska workplace safety
How 3,594 OSHA-reporting employers across Nebraska compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 3,594
- Employers
- 5.4
- Avg TCR
- 66,482
- Injuries
- 63
- Fatalities
The state picture
Nebraska's reporting employers average 5.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.0 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.4
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3,594
- employers reporting
- 66,482
- recordable injuries
- 63
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
24% of Nebraska's reporting establishments earn an F and 15% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Nebraska ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRNebraska's average TCR of 5.4 is lower than 40% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Nebraska is #33 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #48 of 54, a 15-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Nebraska Workplaces Compare
Nebraska hosts 3,594 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Nebraska cohort, workers have logged 66,482 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 63 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Nebraska, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Nebraska, by injury rate
Page 17 of 72| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schwartz Farms Site 2 NE | Leigh | Pig farming | D | 7.2 |
| The Shores | Omaha | Retirement communities, cont | D | 7.2 |
| 6458-ZLIN | Lincoln | Local Messengers and Local D | D | 7.2 |
| Kirkland's Stores, Inc. #669 | Omaha | Homefurnishings stores | F | 7.2 |
| HG072 | Grand Island | Homefurnishings stores | F | 7.2 |
| R+L Carriers - OMH | La Vista | General freight trucking, lo | D | 7.2 |
| Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40 | Lincoln | Garden centers | F | 7.2 |
| Eyman Plumbing, Heating & Air | Lavista | Plumbing and heating contrac | F | 7.2 |
| OTC - LaVista | Lavista | Warehousing and storage, gen | D | 7.2 |
| Superior Lighting Inc. | Omaha | Low voltage electrical work | F | 7.2 |
| Mission Foods Distribution Center | Papillion | Warehousing and storage, gen | D | 7.1 |
| Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. - Las Vegas | Las Vegas | Mailing cases and tubes, pap | F | 7.1 |
| Williams Form Engineering Nebraska | Wayne | Bars, concrete reinforcing, | F | 7.1 |
| The Community Supports Network, Inc. - Lincoln | Lincoln | Intellectual and development | D | 7.1 |
| Consolidated Concrete LLC | Omaha | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | F | 7.1 |
| Arck Foods, Inc. | Lincoln | Smoked meats made from purch | F | 7.1 |
| Peterbilt of Norfolk | Norfolk | Motor vehicle merchant whole | F | 7.1 |
| 306647-Omaha Vmf | Omaha | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.1 |
| Pepsi-Cola of Western Nebraska, LLC | Alliance | Soft drinks merchant wholesa | F | 7.1 |
| The Bridge Behavioral Health, Inc. | Lincoln | Substance abuse facilities, | D | 7.1 |
| 637 | Lexington | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.1 |
| Norris Public Power District | Beatrice | Distribution of electric pow | F | 7.1 |
| Super Saver #18 | Columbus | Grocery stores | F | 7.1 |
| sys inc. dba the grocery kart | Broken Bow | Grocery stores | F | 7.1 |
| OTC | Lavista | Vocational rehabilitation or | D | 7.1 |
| ContiTech USA, LLC | Norfolk | Rubber goods, mechanical (i. | F | 7.1 |
| Wm 10656 | Omaha | - | D | 7.0 |
| ARS Nebraska - Hastings NE | Hastings | Locomotive and rail car repa | D | 7.0 |
| Bellevue Ne - 3109 | Bellevue | Home Centers | F | 7.0 |
| 790 | Mccook | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.0 |
| Interim HealthCare - Lincoln | Lincoln | Home health care agencies | D | 7.0 |
| Hill Brothers Transportation, Inc | Omaha | General freight trucking, lo | D | 7.0 |
| Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital Omaha | Omaha | Continuing care retirement c | D | 7.0 |
| Cornhusker Insulation #780 | Waterloo | Insulation contractors | F | 7.0 |
| Premier Estates of Kenesaw | Kenesaw | Nursing homes | C | 7.0 |
| 4568 | Blair | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.0 |
| NMC Group Gering | Gering | Heavy machinery and equipmen | F | 7.0 |
| Falls City Care Center | Falls City | Nursing homes | C | 7.0 |
| North Platte | North Platte | Petroleum and Petroleum Prod | F | 7.0 |
| Quality Glass & Mirror Services, Inc | Omaha | Insulating glass, sealed uni | F | 7.0 |
| Contractor Services Inc | North Platte | Painting lines on highways, | F | 7.0 |
| Norfolk w/JV | Norfolk | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | F | 7.0 |
| Thayer County Health Services | Hebron | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 7.0 |
| First Choice Vending Company | Lincoln | Soft drinks merchant wholesa | F | 7.0 |
| 306466-North Platte Mpf | North Platte | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.0 |
| The Heritage at Sterling Ridge | Omaha | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.0 |
| Apple Market #26 | Kearney | Grocery stores | F | 7.0 |
| Lexington Regional Health Center | Lexington | General medical and surgical | C | 7.0 |
| AWG, Norfolk | Norfolk | General-line groceries merch | F | 6.9 |
| 6400-SWY-0005-0005-00556 | Scottsbluff | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 6.9 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Nebraska's safety record means for you
Nebraska averages a TCR of 5.4 - about 2.0× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.