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 27 of 72| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good Shepherd Lutheran Community | Blair | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.3 |
| Valley NE - Coatings | Valley | - | D | 5.3 |
| Paul Reed Construction & Supply, Inc. | Gering | Commercial building construc | D | 5.3 |
| Pf Oma | Omaha | Airport baggage handling ser | C | 5.3 |
| Nebraska Surgery Center | Lincoln | Ambulatory surgical centers | D | 5.3 |
| Dawson Tire & Wheel Corporate | Gothenburg | Used tire dealers | D | 5.3 |
| NMC Group North Platte | North Platte | Heavy machinery and equipmen | F | 5.3 |
| Omaha Printing Company | Omaha | Offset printing (except book | D | 5.3 |
| Gretna, Ne - Midwest Dist Office | Gretna | Other Direct Selling Establi | D | 5.3 |
| North Platte - NP | North Platte | Other Grocery Related Produc | F | 5.3 |
| CLAAS Omaha Inc. | Omaha | Combines (i.e., harvester-th | D | 5.3 |
| Bill Doran LLC - Omaha | Omaha | Nursery stock (except plant | F | 5.3 |
| Shopko Hometown #672 (Oneill, NE) | Oneill | Department Stores | D | 5.3 |
| Chief Fabrication | Grand Island | Bale throwers manufacturing | D | 5.2 |
| Chief Ethanol Fuels Lexington | Lexington | Denatured alcohol manufactur | D | 5.2 |
| Good Samaritan Society Bloomfield | Bloomfield | Nursing homes | C | 5.2 |
| 06 Gering, NE | Gering | Heavy machinery and equipmen | F | 5.2 |
| Father Flanagan'S Boys Home/Corp-9 | Boys Town | Intermediate Care Facilities | C | 5.2 |
| 1326 | Grand Island | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.2 |
| Goodwill Main Plant | Omaha | Vocational rehabilitation ag | D | 5.2 |
| WESTCO - Gering Agronomy | Gering | Fertilizer and fertilizer ma | F | 5.2 |
| Primay Beef - Schuyler Location | Schuyler | Boxed beef produced in slaug | D | 5.2 |
| Superior Industries- Columbus | Columbus | Belt conveyor systems manufa | D | 5.2 |
| 306646-Omaha Ne P&Dc | Omaha | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.2 |
| Smithfield Foods | Crete | Meats fresh, chilled or froz | D | 5.2 |
| 0532 - Papillion | Papillion | Discount Department Stores | D | 5.2 |
| Fisher Building Services, Inc | Omaha | Waterproofing contractors | D | 5.2 |
| Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home | Benkelman | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 5.2 |
| Watkins Concrete Block | Omaha | Blocks, concrete and cinder, | D | 5.2 |
| Airlite Plastics Co. Cold Chain | Omaha | Coolers or ice chests, polys | D | 5.2 |
| 393007-Millard | NE | NEB-100 | Omaha | 485410 | C | 5.2 |
| American Red Cross - 2912 S 80th Ave | Omaha | - | D | 5.2 |
| 615-00316 | Omaha | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.2 |
| 2611 Lowe S of Papillion Ne | Papillion | Homecenter | D | 5.2 |
| Enterprise Precast Concrete Inc | Omaha | - | D | 5.2 |
| NE.OMAHA.6 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. | Omaha | Office Equipment | F | 5.2 |
| Primary Beef - Schuyler NE | Schuyler | Boxed beef produced in slaug | D | 5.2 |
| Cherry Hills Estates | Valentine | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.2 |
| TCC-Omaha | Omaha | Telecommunications | D | 5.2 |
| Drake-Williams Steel | Omaha | Fabricated structural metal | D | 5.2 |
| Lincoln South Ne - 3179 | Lincoln | Home Centers | D | 5.1 |
| 4873 | Lincoln | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.1 |
| Hilton Garden Inn Omaha West | Omaha | Residential hotel rental or | F | 5.1 |
| Sutton Dermatology and Asthetics | Lincoln | Dermatologists' offices (e.g | D | 5.1 |
| 2248-62016 | Omaha | Assisted Living | D | 5.1 |
| Yankee Hill Village | Lincoln | Retirement communities, cont | D | 5.1 |
| Contour Construction | Bennington | Trim and finish carpentry co | D | 5.1 |
| Champion Window Company of Omaha, LLC | Omaha | Addition, alteration and ren | D | 5.1 |
| Wis-Pak of Norfolk | Norfolk | Carbonated soft drinks manuf | D | 5.1 |
| Bellevue Medical Center | Omaha | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 5.1 |
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.