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 55 of 72| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Day Company | Omaha | Industrial machinery and equ | B | 1.6 |
| TJ Cable and Underground Services LLC | Omaha | Utility line (i.e., communic | B | 1.6 |
| Nelson Refrigeration | La Vista | Commercial Refrigeration/HVA | B | 1.6 |
| Albion, NE | Albion | Agricultural chemicals merch | B | 1.6 |
| LinkedIn Cafe | Omaha | - | B | 1.6 |
| Imperial | Imperial | Sales and Support of Agricul | A | 1.6 |
| Heartwell East NE | Heartwell | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | B | 1.5 |
| Midwest Floor Covering, Inc. | Lincoln | Vinyl flooring contractors | B | 1.5 |
| Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Inc | Cambridge | Hospital | A | 1.5 |
| Wm 4322 | Crete | - | A | 1.5 |
| Unit #2910 | Papillion | Retail | A | 1.5 |
| 1052 Grand Island, Ne | Grand Island | Family Clothing Stores | A | 1.5 |
| 297 - Crossroads | Omaha | - | A | 1.5 |
| Electronic Contracting Company - Lincoln | Lincoln | Low voltage electrical work | B | 1.5 |
| Highland Park Care Center | Alliance | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.5 |
| Sodexo at Elkhorn Public Schools Dining | Elkhorn | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.5 |
| Ray Martin Company Inc | Omaha | Mechanical contractors | B | 1.5 |
| Sodexo at Unmc Clinics | Omaha | Building Cleaning Maintenanc | A | 1.5 |
| Lincoln Soy | Lincoln | Industrial building (except | B | 1.5 |
| Renaissance Village Complex | Omaha | Housing assistance agencies | A | 1.5 |
| Hill Administrative Services, Inc. | Omaha | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.5 |
| 21129 Omaha DC | Omaha | Hospital equipment and suppl | B | 1.5 |
| Fusion Medical Staffing, LLC | Omaha | Temporary staffing services | B | 1.5 |
| Compression Technologies and Services : SVC-Omaha NE-USA | Omaha | - | B | 1.5 |
| 5650 - Lincoln | Lincoln | Lawn Care | A | 1.5 |
| Home2 Suites Omaha West | Omaha | Motel management services (e | B | 1.5 |
| Evonik | Blair | Enzyme proteins (i.e., basic | A | 1.5 |
| DEG Enterprises Inc. | Norfolk | Electrical wiring contractor | B | 1.5 |
| Truck Equipment Service Company | Lincoln | Truck trailer manufacturing | A | 1.5 |
| McGill Asbestos Abatement, LLC | Omaha | Mechanical contractors | B | 1.5 |
| Lincoln Biotest Plasma Center | Lincoln | Plasma Collection | A | 1.5 |
| Nebraska Furniture Mart | Omaha | Furniture and appliance stor | A | 1.5 |
| The Well NE - Women's Dual Disorder Residential | Norfolk | Substance abuse facilities, | A | 1.5 |
| embecta Holdrege | Holdrege | Hypodermic needles and syrin | A | 1.5 |
| Royal | Royal | Farm supplies merchant whole | B | 1.5 |
| COLUMBUS | Columbus | Confectionery Merchant Whole | B | 1.5 |
| Nebraska Public Power - Gerald Gentleman | Sutherland | Power and Communication Line | B | 1.5 |
| 258 Lincoln | Lincoln | Department Store | A | 1.5 |
| Cambria Omaha Downtown | Omaha | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.5 |
| AerospaceYork | York | Other Aircraft Parts and Aux | A | 1.5 |
| IES Commercial & Industrial - Nebraska | Holdrege | Electric contracting | B | 1.5 |
| The Urology Center, P.C. | Omaha | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | A | 1.5 |
| Business Solutions | Omaha | Customer service call center | B | 1.5 |
| Holdrege Main | Holdrege | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | B | 1.4 |
| Corporate | Lincoln | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.4 |
| 3784 Family Fare (W Center Rd, Omaha, Ne) | Omaha | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.4 |
| Herzog Railroad Services, Inc. - Falls City Shop | Falls City | Rolling stock, railroad, reb | A | 1.4 |
| Beatrice Grain | Beatrice | Beans, dry, merchant wholesa | B | 1.4 |
| USSTRATCOM Replacement Facility | Offutt Afb | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.4 |
| Fremont Beef Company | Fremont | Boxed meat produced from pur | A | 1.4 |
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.
- Look up a specific Nebraska employer rather than relying on the state average. Look up an employer
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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.