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Wisconsin workplace safety

How 12,835 OSHA-reporting employers across Wisconsin compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.

12,835
Employers
5.3
Avg TCR
254,546
Injuries
145
Fatalities

The state picture

Wisconsin's reporting employers average 5.3 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.0 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.

5.3
avg TCR · per 100 workers
12,835
employers reporting
254,546
recordable injuries
145
worker fatalities

State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.

Wisconsin grade distribution 12,831 graded establishments · width = share

25% of Wisconsin's reporting establishments earn an F and 14% 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 Wisconsin ranks among states

54 states & territories by avg TCR

Wisconsin's average TCR of 5.3 is lower than 45% 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 injury rate alone, Wisconsin is #30 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #20 of 54, a 10-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 Wisconsin Workplaces Compare

Wisconsin hosts 12,835 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 Wisconsin cohort, workers have logged 254,546 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.

The state has recorded 145 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 Wisconsin, 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 Wisconsin, by injury rate

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
City of Onalaska Onalaska Executive and legislative of D 4.8
Employ Milwaukee, Inc. Milwaukee Job training, vocational reh D 4.8
Appleton-Schroth Ln A, WI-Biolife 616 Appleton Plasmapheresis Center D 4.8
Quality Liquid Feeds Inc Dodgeville Animal feed mills (except do D 4.8
Aurora Medical Center Summit Oconomowoc General medical and surgical B 4.8
Trudell Trailers of Green Bay, Inc. De Pere Truck trailer merchant whole F 4.8
Westby Headquarters Westby Distribution of electric pow F 4.8
Milwaukee Tool Project Red Beacon 21080009 Milwaukee Construction D 4.8
PHS - Towner Crest Oconomowoc - D 4.8
Wisconsin Bldg - Green Bay Door Green Bay Wood Window and Door Manufac D 4.8
CH Coakley Milwaukee General warehousing and stor C 4.8
Webcrafters, Inc. - Westport Waunakee Books printing and binding w D 4.8
CCA Hudson (17130) Hudson General warehousing and stor C 4.8
KTL 53012 Madison Mcfarland Tanker trucking C 4.8
Van Horn Recon/Detail Shop Plymouth Automobile dealers, new only D 4.8
Beloit 14 Beloit Grocery stores D 4.8
Riverside La Crosse Nursing homes B 4.8
Madison West Wi - 3058 Madison Home Centers D 4.8
Milaegers Inc. Racine Garden centers D 4.8
Wrico Stamping of Wisconsin Menomonee Falls Closures, metal, stamping D 4.8
Msn Dane County Regional Airport Madison Airport passenger screening C 4.8
The Waterford at Plymouth Plymouth Assisted-living facilities w D 4.8
Superior Crane Corporation Waukesha Aerial work platforms manufa D 4.8
VT Industries- Neenah Neenah Door frames and sash, wood a D 4.8
Reich Tool & Design Menomonee Falls Dies, metalworking (except t D 4.8
Blanking Systems Inc. Grafton Machine shops D 4.8
212 - Kenosha Kenosha - D 4.8
4840 Janesville Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.8
Brookfield Branch Brookfield Forklift repair and maintena F 4.8
Custom Service Hardware LLC Jackson Hardware (except motor vehic F 4.8
Merisco, Inc. Milwaukee Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manu D 4.8
Burger Boat Company Manitowoc Yachts built in shipyards D 4.8
207 Delafield Delafield Department Store D 4.8
Avalon Square Waukesha - D 4.8
Little Rapids Corporation - Larsen Road Green Bay Cards, die-cut (except offic D 4.8
IQHWI Hayward WI Hayward Home health agencies C 4.8
Russ Darrow West Bend LLC West Bend Automobile dealers, new only D 4.8
Sodexo at Marian University Facilities Fond Du Lac Facilities Support Services D 4.8
Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork Co., Inc. Wausau Sash, door and window, wood D 4.8
Nelson Lumber & Home, Inc. Hayward Home centers, building mater D 4.8
Michels Fleet- Brownsville Brownsville Construction machinery and e F 4.8
CleanPower - North Centeral Incl. St Point/Eau Claire Milwaukee Building cleaning services, C 4.8
Holsum Irish Dairy Hilbert Milk production, dairy cattl C 4.8
Select Specialty Hospital - Madison, Inc Madison Hospitals, specialty (except D 4.8
Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Store Wittenberg Baked ham stores D 4.8
LMI Packaging Solutions Pleasant Prairie Flexible packaging, plastics D 4.8
Marathon Cheese Corporation Marathon Cheese, natural (except cott D 4.8
Z.T. Distribution, Inc. Waukesha Groceries, general-line, mer F 4.8
Furlani Foods North Plant Oak Creek Frozen bread and bread-type D 4.8
Smgb-Green Bay-2 Hshs St Mary S Hosp Medical Center Green Bay General Medical and Surgical B 4.8
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What Wisconsin's safety record means for you

Wisconsin averages a TCR of 5.3 - about 2.0× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.

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.