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 52 of 72| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent Investors, Inc. | Omaha | Electrical, electrical wirin | B | 1.9 |
| Airlanco, Inc. | Falls City | Hoops, metal (except wire), | B | 1.9 |
| NE001 | Offutt Afb | Aircraft maintenance and rep | A | 1.9 |
| Goree Backhoe & Excavating, Inc | Fremont | Excavating, earthmoving, or | B | 1.9 |
| Midland Scientific - Omaha | Lavista | Scientific laboratory equipm | C | 1.9 |
| Fresh Ideas Management- Hastings College | Hastings | Food service contractors, ca | B | 1.9 |
| Frontier Cooperative Elmwood | Elmwood | Grain elevators merchant who | C | 1.9 |
| Beatrice Renewables Plant | Beatrice | Transesterification of veget | B | 1.9 |
| Shopko Store #45 (Bellevue, NE) | Bellevue | Department Stores | B | 1.9 |
| Wm 7818 | North Platte | - | A | 1.9 |
| Bed Bath and Beyond Lincoln | Lincoln | retailing new home furnishin | B | 1.9 |
| Omaha 0885 | Omaha | Other Chemical and Allied Pr | C | 1.8 |
| Mountain Manufacturing Preferred Popcorn Waco - 4033 | Waco | - | A | 1.8 |
| Omaha Power Center Ne | Omaha | - | B | 1.8 |
| Rolling Hills Ranch | Omaha | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.8 |
| Ne25th-Opi-Omaha-25th 430 | Omaha | PLASMA COLLECTION | A | 1.8 |
| Gateway Mall | Lincoln | Janitorial Contractor | A | 1.8 |
| 84th & Center Goodwill Retail Store | Omaha | Second-hand merchandise stor | B | 1.8 |
| 103290 - Aksarben Village Zone 6 South | Omaha | Office building construction | B | 1.8 |
| Valmont Irrigation | Mccook | Irrigation equipment, agricu | B | 1.8 |
| Attitude on Food, Inc. | Omaha | Caterers | B | 1.8 |
| Aulick Manufacturing Inc | Scottsbluff | Semi-trailer manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| South Sioux City Schools | South Sioux City | - | B | 1.8 |
| IES Commercial, Inc. - Travel Group | Kearney | Electrical wiring contractor | B | 1.8 |
| Molex-Upland | Lincoln | Connectors, electronic (e.g. | B | 1.8 |
| Unit # 0731 | Omaha | Retail | B | 1.8 |
| Grand Lodge | Lincoln | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.8 |
| MPM Dairy West LLC | Wayne | Milk production, dairy cattl | A | 1.8 |
| BrandSafway, LLC - Omaha Branch | Gretna | Specialty Trade Contractor | B | 1.8 |
| PSSI - 0121 Cargill Incorporated - Schuyler | Schuyler | Janitorial Services | A | 1.8 |
| Brentwood Estates | Lincoln | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.8 |
| 30644 - Capstone Frito Lay La Vista NE | Omaha | Bonded warehousing, general | A | 1.8 |
| Kearney, NE | Kearney | Support Activities for Crop | A | 1.8 |
| WMS Omaha NE - West | Omaha | Locomotive and rail car repa | A | 1.8 |
| Reimers Kaufman Block Company | Lincoln | Patio block, concrete, manuf | B | 1.8 |
| Twin Rivers YMCA | Valley | Athletic club facilities, ph | B | 1.8 |
| Elkhorn, NE Facility | Elkhorn | Virus vaccines manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| 1159 Lowe S of Central Omaha Ne | Omaha | Homecenter | B | 1.8 |
| Kamterter Products, LLC. | Waverly | Seed processing, post-harves | A | 1.8 |
| Engineered Controls | Omaha | Telecommunications equipment | B | 1.8 |
| John Prouty Construction, Inc | O'Neill | Road construction | B | 1.8 |
| NE Corporate | Omaha | 423110 Automobile and Other | C | 1.8 |
| Ne25th-Opi-Omaha-25th Street | Omaha | PLASMA COLLECTION | A | 1.8 |
| Max's Body Shop Inc | Omaha | Automotive body shops | C | 1.8 |
| Newport House | Omaha | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.8 |
| Aurora Cooperative - Grand Island Agronomy | Grand Island | Agricultural chemicals merch | C | 1.8 |
| Arrow Stage Lines Lincoln | Lincoln | Charter bus services (except | A | 1.8 |
| Capitol City Electric | Lincoln | Electric contracting | B | 1.8 |
| K.W.Boring, Inc. | Springfield | Horizontal drilling (e.g., u | B | 1.8 |
| Hockenbergs Omaha | Omaha | Restaurant equipment (except | C | 1.8 |
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.