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 32 of 72| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Hotel | Omaha | Hotel management services (i | D | 4.5 |
| Duncan Aviation LNK | Lincoln | Aircraft maintenance and rep | C | 4.5 |
| Ta Ogallala | Ogallala | Gasoline Service Stations | D | 4.5 |
| 463 Omaha, Ne | Omaha | Family Clothing Stores | D | 4.5 |
| SW | Omaha | Child day care centers | C | 4.5 |
| 61830001 Methodist Hospital | Omaha | General Medical and Surgical | B | 4.5 |
| Fremont Plant | Fremont | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | D | 4.5 |
| 08 Lincoln, NE | Lincoln | Heavy machinery and equipmen | F | 4.5 |
| TRIC-S | Lincoln | Seats for public conveyances | C | 4.5 |
| Nebraska Medicine | Omaha | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 4.5 |
| Eriksen Construction Co., Inc. | Blair | Construction management, wat | D | 4.5 |
| Pepsi Cola of Siouxland | South Sioux City | Soft drinks merchant wholesa | F | 4.5 |
| Avera Creighton Hospital Campus | Creighton | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 4.5 |
| NDX Kiess Kraft | Omaha | Dental Laboratories | D | 4.4 |
| McCain Foods Plant #4 | Grand Island | French fries, frozen, pre-co | D | 4.4 |
| Adams Trucking | Sidney | Motor freight carrier, gener | C | 4.4 |
| Skylark Meats | Omaha | Meat products canning (excep | D | 4.4 |
| American Baptist Homes of the Midwest | Omaha | Nursing homes | B | 4.4 |
| 1155.1-Waco, NE-Mfg (Monsanto Co.) | Waco | Postharvest Crop Activities | C | 4.4 |
| Beef Products, Inc. - South Sioux City | South Sioux City | Processed meats manufacturin | D | 4.4 |
| Box Butte General Hospital- 2101 | Alliance | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 4.4 |
| Fremont - Main Store | Fremont | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.4 |
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 043 Omaha | Omaha | Grocery stores | D | 4.4 |
| HG817 | Gretha | Homefurnishings stores | D | 4.4 |
| Cooked - Nebraska City NE | Nebraska City | Cooked meats made from purch | D | 4.4 |
| NMC Group LLC - DP | Doniphan | Commercial & Industrial Mach | F | 4.4 |
| Chappell Agronomy | Chappell | Fertilizer and fertilizer ma | D | 4.4 |
| 00394-SR69 | Lincoln | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | D | 4.4 |
| Schwartz Farms Timber Ridge 12347 445th Street Leigh NE | Leigh | Farrow-to-finish operations | C | 4.4 |
| Speedway Motors, Inc | Lincoln | Auto salvage yards (i.e., re | D | 4.4 |
| Baxter Kenworthy Electric, Inc | Omaha | Electrical contractors | D | 4.4 |
| Hill Bros. Transportation Inc. | Omaha | General freight trucking, lo | C | 4.4 |
| Gerhold Concrete Company, Inc | Norfolk | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | D | 4.4 |
| 2561-2800 -Gothenburg, NE | Gothenburg | Seed processing, postharvest | C | 4.4 |
| Drake-Williams Nebraska | Omaha | Bars, concrete reinforcing, | D | 4.4 |
| Omni Engineering | Omaha | Curbs and street gutters, hi | D | 4.4 |
| The Heritage at Legacy | Omaha | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 4.4 |
| Aksarben Senior Living | Omaha | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 4.4 |
| Fresh Ideas Management- Midland University | Fremont | Cafeteria food services cont | D | 4.4 |
| Kidwell Inc | Lincoln | Electric contracting | D | 4.4 |
| Chief Ethanol Fuels- Hastings | Hastings | Denatured alcohol manufactur | D | 4.3 |
| Sodexo at Creighton Univ Catering | Omaha | Food Service Contractors | D | 4.3 |
| 8146 | Omaha | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.3 |
| Memorial Community Hospital Corporation | Blair | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 4.3 |
| Airlite Plastics Co. | Omaha | Bowls and bowl covers, plast | D | 4.3 |
| Kehm Contractors, Inc. | Omaha | Brick veneer, installation | D | 4.3 |
| Omaha Freezer | Omaha | Refrigerated Warehousing and | B | 4.3 |
| 621E | Omaha | Car rental agencies | F | 4.3 |
| Mountain Manufacturing Preferred Popcorn Chapman - 4030 | Chapman | - | C | 4.3 |
| American Concrete Products - Valley, Nebraska | Valley | Precast concrete pipe manufa | D | 4.3 |
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.