TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Nebraska workplace safety
How 3,594 OSHA-reporting employers across Nebraska compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 3,168 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 3,594
- Employers
- 5.4
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 66,482
- Injuries (all)
- 63
- Fatalities (all)
Nebraska vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
3,594 36th of 54 higher than 18 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Nebraska's 3,168 rated 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 · rated subset
- 3,168
- rated employers
- 3,594
- all reporting employers
- 66,482
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 3,594 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 15% B · 12% C · 27% D · 22% F · 24%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Nebraska is #33 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 3,168-employer subset), it's #46 of 54, a 13-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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 3,168 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 2 of 72| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 205 | Lincoln | Drywall board merchant whole | F | 19.2 |
| 6400-SWY-0005-0005-02555 | Sidney | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 18.9 |
| Aurora Cooperative - Superior East Elevator | Superior | Grain elevators merchant who | F | 18.8 |
| Lincoln- Plant 1 | Lincoln | Tanks, storage, plastics or | F | 18.8 |
| Culbertson Wholesale Production Plant | Mccook | Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueo | F | 18.7 |
| Blair Community Schools | Blair | Cafeteria food services cont | F | 18.7 |
| Trader Joe's 0719 Omaha | Omaha | Grocery Store | F | 18.6 |
| Palleton of Fremont | Fremont | Pallets, wood or wood and me | F | 18.5 |
| Midwest Covenant Home, Inc | Stromsburg | Nursing homes | F | 18.5 |
| Trego/Dugan Aviation of GI GRI | Grand Island | Aircraft maintenance and rep | F | 18.4 |
| Ace Irrigation & MFG. Co | Kearney | Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, l | F | 18.3 |
| 194 ABC Supply Co., Inc | Lincoln | Wholesale Building Materials | F | 18.3 |
| Arbor Care Center-Neligh | Neligh | Nursing homes | F | 18.2 |
| Scottsbluff Public Schools | Scottsbluff | Cafeteria food services cont | F | 18.1 |
| Hastings Foods LLC | Grand Island | Processed meats manufacturin | F | 17.9 |
| Beef Products, Inc. - Lexington | Lexington | Processed meats manufacturin | F | 17.9 |
| 687 | Norfolk | Couriers and express deliver | F | 17.9 |
| 6957-LNK | Lincoln | Other Airport Operations | F | 17.8 |
| Arbor Aesthetics Tree Service | Omaha | Tree services (e.g., bracing | F | 17.6 |
| Hinz Trucking, Inc. | Elm Creek | General freight trucking, lo | F | 17.6 |
| Norris School District 160 | Firth | Cafeteria food services cont | F | 17.6 |
| Premier Estates of Pierce | Pierce | Nursing homes | F | 17.5 |
| Midwest Steel Works | Lincoln | Fabricated structural metal | F | 17.4 |
| 1771 3274 LKQ Lincoln | Lincoln | Motor vehicle parts, used, m | F | 17.3 |
| Fireworks | Lincoln | Full service restaurants | F | 17.2 |
| CSS Farms - Columbus | Columbus | Potato farming, field and se | F | 17.2 |
| 0673 - Grand Island, Ne | Grand Island | Retail Stores | F | 17.2 |
| 306641-Oma-Benson Sta | Omaha | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 17.0 |
| Silver Ridge Village Inc | Gretna | assisted living for elderly | F | 16.9 |
| Meco-Henne Contracting | Omaha | Commercial building construc | F | 16.8 |
| DFS Nebraska Plant | Nebraska City | Nationality specialty foods, | F | 16.8 |
| Custom Pipe & Fabrication, Inc. / Grand Island | Grand Island | Pipe fabricating (i.e., bend | F | 16.8 |
| American Shizuki Corporation | Ogallala | Capacitors, electronic, fixe | F | 16.7 |
| HG630 | Lincoln | Homefurnishings stores | F | 16.7 |
| Country View | Fairbury | Pig farming | F | 16.6 |
| Welcov Assisted Living at Papillion | Papillion | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 16.6 |
| henningsen foods | Norfolk | Poultry (e.g., canned, cooke | F | 16.6 |
| Gering Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. | Gering | Central air-conditioning equ | F | 16.5 |
| Lincoln Pro Baseball | Lincoln | Baseball clubs, professional | F | 16.4 |
| Waverly | Waverly | Trusses, wood roof or floor, | F | 16.4 |
| Oma Oma | Omaha | Other Airport Operations | F | 16.4 |
| Beaver Creek Products, LLC | York | Pet food, dog and cat, manuf | F | 16.3 |
| Great Plains | Sidney | Sheet metal work (except sta | F | 16.2 |
| Carter Place | Blair | CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT C | F | 16.1 |
| Kearney Countryhouse, LLC | Kearney | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 16.1 |
| Omaha 2 | Omaha | General-line groceries merch | F | 16.0 |
| Buffalo Plains Genetics, LLC. | Maywood | Hog and pig (including breed | F | 16.0 |
| 10797 | Omaha | Senior Living | F | 15.9 |
| WEL-Life at Kearney | Kearney | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.8 |
| Wilderness | Fairbury | Weaning pig operations | F | 15.7 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Nebraska: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.4 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (3,594 here).
Look up a Nebraska employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.