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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 6 of 72| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behlen Technology & Manufacturing | Omaha | Angle irons, metal, manufact | F | 11.9 |
| SteelHearn | Lincoln | Highway bridge sections, pre | F | 11.9 |
| NE008 | Omaha | Service Establishment Equipm | F | 11.8 |
| Carry Transit - Blair, Ne | Blair | Trucking, general freight, l | F | 11.8 |
| Raikes Farm | Ashland | Ag | F | 11.8 |
| Mitchell Equipment, LLC | Atkinson | Agricultural machinery and e | F | 11.8 |
| 2643-26290001-262911 | Omaha | Residential Mental Health an | F | 11.8 |
| Southern Iowa Missouri | Omaha | Collection, treatment, and d | F | 11.8 |
| The Heritage at Shalimar Gardens | Fremont | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.8 |
| Main Office | Lincoln | - | F | 11.8 |
| Omaha (Air Sort) (Neair) | Omaha | Courier Services Except by A | D | 11.8 |
| Sandhills Renewable Energy LLC | Atkinson | Ethanol, nonpotable, manufac | F | 11.8 |
| 11 North Platte, NE | North Platte | Heavy machinery and equipmen | F | 11.7 |
| Grand Island_1365306 | Grand Island | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.7 |
| 303741-Grand Island P&Df | Grand Island | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.7 |
| Shopko Hometown #691 (Ogallala, NE) | Ogallala | Department Stores | F | 11.7 |
| Quality Refrigerated Services Omaha | Omaha | Refrigerated warehousing | F | 11.7 |
| 2807-2739 | Lincoln | Homecenter | F | 11.7 |
| Neair - Omaha (Air Sort) | Omaha | Couriers and Express Deliver | D | 11.7 |
| Omaha Retread | Omaha | Tire Dealers | F | 11.6 |
| West Point Ford | West Point | Truck trailer merchant whole | F | 11.6 |
| Remington Heights | Omaha | Homes for the elderly with n | D | 11.6 |
| 306643-Oma-Elmwood Park Sta | Omaha | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.6 |
| Florence Home | Omaha | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.6 |
| South Omaha_1382225 | Omaha | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.6 |
| Northern Nance | St. Edward | Hog and pig farming | F | 11.6 |
| Kearney Ne - 3200 | Kearney | Home Centers | F | 11.5 |
| Ola 48 | Omaha | - | F | 11.5 |
| 688 | Grand Island | Couriers and express deliver | D | 11.5 |
| Goodwill Retail Operations Center | Omaha | Second-hand merchandise stor | F | 11.5 |
| 2643-26310001-263101 | Omaha | General Medical and Surgical | D | 11.5 |
| Vtm-429 Omaha | Offutt Afb | Electrical Contractors and O | F | 11.5 |
| Lone Creek Cattle Company | Lincoln | Combination livestock farmin | F | 11.5 |
| Allo-Lincoln | Lincoln | Long-distance telephone carr | F | 11.5 |
| Midwest Farmers Cooperative - Elmwood | Elmwood | Beans, dry, merchant wholesa | F | 11.5 |
| Douglas Holdings dba Sidump'r | Columbus | Dump trailer manufacturing | F | 11.4 |
| H&S Enterprise Lincoln | Lincoln | General freight trucking, lo | F | 11.4 |
| Canfields | Omaha | Second-hand merchandise stor | F | 11.4 |
| Beth_Schlichtman | Superior | Hospitals, general medical a | D | 11.4 |
| Thermal Design Madison Net Zero | Madison | Insulation materials (except | F | 11.4 |
| Rail Modal Group - Fremont | Fremont | Loading and unloading servic | F | 11.4 |
| Regional West Village | Scottsbluff | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.4 |
| Trader Joe's 0722 Lincoln | Lincoln | Grocery Store | F | 11.4 |
| A-MAZE-ING Delivery LLC | Omaha | Local letter and parcel deli | D | 11.4 |
| Hiland Dairy Omaha Plant | Omaha | Milk processing (e.g., bottl | F | 11.4 |
| Fuller Distribution Systems Inc | Waterloo | Express delivery services (e | D | 11.4 |
| OMA - Ground Ops | Omaha | Scheduled Passenger Air Tran | F | 11.3 |
| 2643-26110001-261101 | Lincoln | General Medical and Surgical | D | 11.3 |
| CHI Health Nebraska Heart Hospital | Lincoln | Hospitals, specialty (except | F | 11.3 |
| PrimeForce Medical Corp | La Vista | Temporary staffing services | F | 11.3 |
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.