TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Nebraska workplace safety
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).
- 3,594
- Employers
- 5.4
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 66,482
- Injuries (all)
- 63
- Fatalities (all)
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
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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.
- 5.4
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 3,168
- rated employers
- 3,594
- all reporting employers
- 66,482
- recordable injuries (all)
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.
A · 15% B · 12% C · 27% D · 22% F · 24%
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.
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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.
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. 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.
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 |
| Behrle Construction | Columbus | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.6 |
| NatureWorks LLC (Blair) | Blair | Resins, plastics (except cus | A | 0.6 |
| Aurora Cooperative - Corporate Office | Aurora | Grain elevators merchant who | A | 0.6 |
| Sodexo at Ortho Nebraska Food | Omaha | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.6 |
| Patriot Crane & Rigging, LLC | Omaha | Crane rental with operator | A | 0.6 |
| Valley Transportation - 3745 | Valley | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 0.6 |
| Home Office-LINK | Omaha | Retirement communities, cont | 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 |
| GSK Consumer Health Care | Lincoln | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 0.6 |
| Heavy Fabrication | Hastings | Fabricated structural metal | A | 0.6 |
| Riekes Equipment Company | Omaha | Chemical industries machiner | A | 0.6 |
| Colon | Colon | Chemicals, agricultural, mer | A | 0.6 |
| AMCON Corporate | Omaha | Chewing tobacco merchant who | A | 0.6 |
| Store 99 | Omaha | Used Merchandise | A | 0.6 |
| Omaha | Fremont | Building, nonresidential (ex | A | 0.6 |
| 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 |
| Tosca - Omaha | Omaha | General warehousing and stor | A | 0.5 |
| Northwest Campus | Omaha | Marketing research services | C | 0.5 |
| Serco - Bellevue, NE | Bellevue | Electrical Contractors and O | A | 0.5 |
| J.D. Heiskell & Co. Elkhorn NE | Omaha | Cattle feeds, supplements, c | A | 0.5 |
| Election Systems & Software LLC | Omaha | Computers manufacturing | 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 |
| 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 |
| J.D. Heiskell & Co. Elkhorn NE | Elkhorn | Animal feed mills (except do | A | 0.5 |
| Lincoln Winwater Works Co | Lincoln | Plumbing supplies merchant w | A | 0.5 |
| Headquarters | Omaha | Sewage treatment plants or f | A | 0.5 |
| Topp's Mechanical Inc. | Tecumseh | Plumbing and heating contrac | A | 0.5 |
| Nelnet-Lincoln 401 | Lincoln | Bank clearinghouse associati | C | 0.5 |
| Google UNO1 Data Center 21120006 | Omaha | Construction | A | 0.5 |
| Platte Valley Precast | Columbus | Chimney, concrete, construct | A | 0.5 |
| Omaha Steaks - O St | Omaha | Corporate offices | B | 0.5 |
| KPR U.S., LLC- Norfolk | Norfolk | Surgical supplies (except me | A | 0.5 |
| Infogroup PapS9L | Papillion | Directory and mailing list p | B | 0.5 |
| STANLEY Healthcare | Lincoln | Crutches and walkers manufac | A | 0.5 |
| LRS Healthcare, LLC | Omaha | Help supply services | 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 |
| Omaha / Lincoln, NE HVAC | Omaha | Heating, ventilation and air | A | 0.4 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
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.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.4 here).
Similar employer inventory
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.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.