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 33 of 72| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61830190 Methodist Fremont Health | Fremont | General Medical and Surgical | B | 4.3 |
| Dramco Tool Co., Inc. | Grand Island | Die-casting dies manufacturi | D | 4.3 |
| The Midwest Electric Cooperative Corporation | Grant | Distribution of electric pow | F | 4.3 |
| Niobrara Valley Electric Membership Corporation | O'Neill | Distribution of electric pow | F | 4.3 |
| 2807-2611 | Papillion | Homecenter | D | 4.3 |
| Friendship Home of Lincoln | Lincoln | Battered women's shelters | C | 4.3 |
| Omaha Regional Bakery - Main Store | Omaha | Commercial Bakeries | D | 4.3 |
| NMC Group LLC - NP | North Platte | Commercial & Industrial Mach | F | 4.3 |
| Columbus Metals Industries | Columbus | General-line scrap merchant | D | 4.3 |
| Homewood Suites Omaha Dt | Omaha | Hotels (except Casino Hotels | D | 4.3 |
| Nox-Crete Manufacturing, Inc. | Omaha | Concrete additive preparatio | D | 4.3 |
| CSS Farms, LLC Minden, NE | Minden | Potato farming, field and se | C | 4.3 |
| NMC Group LLC - LW | Lincoln West | Commercial & Industrial Mach | F | 4.3 |
| ABC Supply 194 | Lincoln | Roofing, Siding and Insulati | D | 4.3 |
| Reimers Kaufman Block Comapny | Lincoln | Blocks, concrete and cinder, | D | 4.3 |
| Plymouth | Plymouth | Grain elevators merchant who | D | 4.3 |
| The Evergreen ALF | O'Neill | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 4.3 |
| La Vista Embassy Suites | La Vista | Hotels and Motels | D | 4.3 |
| Smithfield | Crete | Pork carcasses, half carcass | D | 4.3 |
| 306645-Omaha Po | Omaha | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.3 |
| Superior Metal Products, Inc | Omaha | Angle irons, metal, manufact | D | 4.3 |
| 615-00323 | Fremont | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.3 |
| Molex - West Upland | Lincoln | General warehousing and stor | B | 4.3 |
| American Laboratories 5020 | Omaha | Glandular derivatives, uncom | D | 4.3 |
| Elwood Care Center and Assisted living | Elwood | Nursing homes | B | 4.3 |
| Magnolia Metal Corp. | Auburn | Machine shops | D | 4.3 |
| Wm 2579 | Chadron | - | D | 4.3 |
| Binswanger Glass Branch 579 | Lincoln | Glass and Glazing Contractor | D | 4.3 |
| EBM Construction, Inc. | Norfolk | Millwrights | D | 4.3 |
| 28263 Hilton Omaha Ne | Omaha | Hotels | D | 4.2 |
| Valley NE - Main Campus - Shared Services | Valley | - | D | 4.2 |
| Chief Agri GI | Grand Island | Bale throwers manufacturing | D | 4.2 |
| Element Omaha Midtown Crossing | Omaha | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 4.2 |
| Hooker Brothers Office | Grand Island | Excavating, earthmoving, or | D | 4.2 |
| 3203 Sw Omaha | Omaha | Home Centers | D | 4.2 |
| Overhead Door Co. of Omaha | Papillion | Home centers, building mater | D | 4.2 |
| The Meadows | Norfolk | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 4.2 |
| Pssi / Jbs USA - Grand Island | Grand Island | Building Maintenance Service | C | 4.2 |
| Lincoln Office | Lincoln | Finish Carpentry Contractors | D | 4.2 |
| Life Care Center of Elkhorn | Elkhorn | Convalescent homes or conval | B | 4.2 |
| Vandenberg Electric & Communications LLC | David City | Electrical contractors | D | 4.2 |
| Omaha Steaks F St | Omaha | Meats, fresh or chilled (ex | D | 4.2 |
| 3823 | Lincoln | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.2 |
| Askarben Suites Omaha | Omaha | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 4.2 |
| 090 TA Ogallala | Ogallala | Truck stops | D | 4.2 |
| Arbor Care Center - Tekamah | Tekamah | Homes for the elderly with n | B | 4.2 |
| Las Vista | Las Vista | General freight trucking, lo | C | 4.2 |
| Outlook nebraska | Omaha | Towels, paper, made from pur | D | 4.2 |
| Wayne State | Wayne | - | D | 4.2 |
| FedEx 3225 WEST WILDWOOD DR | Grand Island | Courier and Express Delivery | B | 4.2 |
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.