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 62 of 72| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Campus | Lincoln | Trade magazine and periodica | C | 0.6 |
| Sodexo at Doane College | Crete | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.6 |
| Aurora Cooperative - Corporate Office | Aurora | Grain elevators merchant who | A | 0.6 |
| NatureWorks LLC (Blair) | Blair | Resins, plastics (except cus | A | 0.6 |
| Behrle Construction | Columbus | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.6 |
| Sodexo at Ortho Nebraska Food | Omaha | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.6 |
| Home Office-LINK | Omaha | Retirement communities, cont | A | 0.6 |
| Valley Transportation - 3745 | Valley | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 0.6 |
| Patriot Crane & Rigging, LLC | Omaha | Crane rental with operator | A | 0.6 |
| Silverhawk Aviation | Lincoln | Nonscheduled air passenger t | A | 0.6 |
| DNA Genetics | Columbus | Hog and pig (including breed | A | 0.6 |
| Fluid Connectors : Alliance | Alliance | Rubber Manufacturing | A | 0.6 |
| Corp-One Cabela Dr,Sidney Ne | Sidney | Corporate offices | C | 0.6 |
| Heavy Fabrication | Hastings | Fabricated structural metal | A | 0.6 |
| AMCON Corporate | Omaha | Chewing tobacco merchant who | A | 0.6 |
| Colon | Colon | Chemicals, agricultural, mer | A | 0.6 |
| Riekes Equipment Company | Omaha | Chemical industries machiner | A | 0.6 |
| Store 99 | Omaha | Used Merchandise | A | 0.6 |
| Omaha | Fremont | Building, nonresidential (ex | A | 0.6 |
| GSK Consumer Health Care | Lincoln | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 0.6 |
| Tosca - Omaha | Omaha | General warehousing and stor | A | 0.5 |
| Mainelli Mechanical Contractors, Inc. | Omaha | Mechanical contractors | A | 0.5 |
| NatureWorks LLC | Blair | Resins, plastics (except cus | A | 0.5 |
| Omaha Boystown_1435236 | Omaha | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 0.5 |
| Northwest Campus | Omaha | Marketing research services | C | 0.5 |
| J.D. Heiskell & Co. Elkhorn NE | Omaha | Cattle feeds, supplements, c | A | 0.5 |
| Lincoln NE Axle Shop | Lincoln | Railroad rolling stock manuf | A | 0.5 |
| Omaha NE 6 Cag Dr | Omaha | Corporate Subsidiary and R | B | 0.5 |
| Election Systems & Software LLC | Omaha | Computers manufacturing | A | 0.5 |
| Serco - Bellevue, NE | Bellevue | Electrical Contractors and O | A | 0.5 |
| Hilton Garden Inn Omaha Dt | Omaha | Hotels (except Casino Hotels | A | 0.5 |
| Overhead Door | Grand Island | Garage doors, wood, manufact | A | 0.5 |
| NA Mfg Lincoln | Lincoln | Data communications equipmen | A | 0.5 |
| Tenneco Lincoln | Lincoln | Exhaust and tail pipes, auto | A | 0.5 |
| OTT Concrete Construction | Aurora | Concrete pouring | A | 0.5 |
| Lincoln Winwater Works Co | Lincoln | Plumbing supplies merchant w | A | 0.5 |
| J.D. Heiskell & Co. Elkhorn NE | Elkhorn | Animal feed mills (except do | A | 0.5 |
| Headquarters | Omaha | Sewage treatment plants or f | A | 0.5 |
| Nelnet-Lincoln 401 | Lincoln | Bank clearinghouse associati | C | 0.5 |
| Topp's Mechanical Inc. | Tecumseh | Plumbing and heating contrac | A | 0.5 |
| Platte Valley Precast | Columbus | Chimney, concrete, construct | A | 0.5 |
| Google UNO1 Data Center 21120006 | Omaha | Construction | A | 0.5 |
| Omaha Steaks - O St | Omaha | Corporate offices | B | 0.5 |
| Infogroup PapS9L | Papillion | Directory and mailing list p | B | 0.5 |
| KPR U.S., LLC- Norfolk | Norfolk | Surgical supplies (except me | A | 0.5 |
| LRS Healthcare, LLC | Omaha | Help supply services | A | 0.5 |
| STANLEY Healthcare | Lincoln | Crutches and walkers manufac | A | 0.5 |
| Carrier Enterprise | Omaha | Air pollution control equipm | A | 0.4 |
| Werner Management/OMANE Terminal | Omaha | Other Support Activities for | A | 0.4 |
| C&A Industries, LLC | Omaha | Temporary staffing services | A | 0.4 |
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.
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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.