TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
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).
TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.4 avg TCR
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.
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.
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.
Nebraska'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 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.
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.
| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MTZ Construction, LLC | Lincoln | Construction management, hig | B | 1.7 |
| 104054 - Omaha Riverfront | Omaha | Park and recreational open s | B | 1.7 |
| Shorco, Inc. | Omaha | Concrete form contractors | B | 1.7 |
| CBC - Grand Island Plant | Grand Island | Roof trusses, wood, manufact | B | 1.7 |
| Mid America Agri Products/Wheatland | Madrid | Denatured alcohol manufactur | B | 1.7 |
| Nebraska Furniture Mart INC-Omaha | Omaha | Homefurnishings stores | A | 1.7 |
| Industrial Performance Group of NE | Beaver City | Flatbed trailers, commercial | B | 1.7 |
| 885_15712 | Kearney | - | A | 1.7 |
| The Broken Mug LLC | Columbus | Restaurants, carryout | B | 1.7 |
| TR Construction | Omaha | Concrete finishing | B | 1.6 |
| Smithfield Foods Omaha | Omaha | Luncheon meat (except poultr | A | 1.6 |
| Centennial Plastics | Hastings | Pipe, rigid plastics, manufa | A | 1.6 |
| Sunbelt | Omaha | Apartment managers' offices | C | 1.6 |
| B-D Construction Inc. | Columbus | Mausoleum (i.e., building) c | B | 1.6 |
| IES Commercial, Inc - dba Shanahan M&E | Lincoln | Low voltage electrical work | B | 1.6 |
| 56th | Lincoln | Dog and Cat Food Manufacturi | A | 1.6 |
| BD Columbus West | Columbus | Hypodermic needles and syrin | A | 1.6 |
| Parker Gothenburg NE | Gothenburg | Gasket, packing, and sealing | A | 1.6 |
| 3597 Keystone | Omaha | Automotive parts, new, merch | B | 1.6 |
| Oxford Madison House LLC | Norfolk | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.6 |
| Sodexo at Creighton Univ Brandeis | Omaha | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.6 |
| TCC Corporate | Omaha | 423110 Automobile and Other | B | 1.6 |
| 3785 Family Fare (3003 N 108th, Omaha, Ne) | Omaha | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.6 |
| 24th Street Enterprises LLC | Omaha | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 1.6 |
| Artisan Stone Company, Inc. | Omaha | Architectural wall panels, p | A | 1.6 |
| 31129 Nebraska Med Ctr | Omaha | Medical equipment merchant w | B | 1.6 |
| Midwest Turf & Irrigation | Omaha | Farm machinery and equipment | B | 1.6 |
| Warhorse Casino Lincoln | Lincoln | Casinos (except casino hotel | B | 1.6 |
| Hussmann Services Corporation-LaVista | La Vista | Commercial Refrigeration Ins | B | 1.6 |
| Bauer Underground, Inc. | Norfolk | Underground Utility Contract | B | 1.6 |
| Transport Solutions Americas : MFG-Hastings, NE-USA | Hastings | - | A | 1.6 |
| TurnKey Solutions Corporation | La Vista | Compact discs, recordable or | A | 1.6 |
| O'Neill Super Foods | O'Neill | Supermarkets | A | 1.6 |
| Fountain View Senior Living | Omaha | Retirement communities, cont | A | 1.6 |
| Northport NE Car Shop | Bridgeport | Railroad rolling stock manuf | A | 1.6 |
| Becton Dickinson | Broken Bow | Bronchoscopes (except electr | A | 1.6 |
| Great Plains Beef | Lincoln | Meats, fresh, merchant whole | B | 1.6 |
| Oxford NE | Oxford | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | B | 1.6 |
| Schulz Transportation Services, Inc | Lincoln | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.6 |
| Mercy One Oakland Medical Center | Oakland | General medical and surgical | A | 1.6 |
| CCS Group | Seward | Concrete repair | B | 1.6 |
| Dutton-Lainson Corporate/Wholesale/Cornhusker Press | Hastings | Print shops, quick (except p | A | 1.6 |
| Machine Shop | Lincoln | Machine shops | A | 1.6 |
| Central States Industrial Supply,Inc | Omaha | Bakery machinery and equipme | B | 1.6 |
| Hi-Line Cooperative, Inc. | Elsie | Chemicals, agricultural, mer | B | 1.6 |
| Omaha 421 | Omaha | - | A | 1.6 |
| The Well NE - Mommy & Me | Norfolk | Substance abuse facilities, | A | 1.6 |
| TJ Cable and Underground Services LLC | Omaha | Utility line (i.e., communic | B | 1.6 |
| Valley | Valley | - | A | 1.6 |
| O'Connor Company - Omaha | Omaha | Central heating equipment, w | B | 1.6 |
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.
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.4 here).
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.
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.