TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.3 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Wisconsin workplace safety
How 12,835 OSHA-reporting employers across Wisconsin compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 11,761 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 12,835
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 254,546
- Injuries (all)
- 145
- Fatalities (all)
Wisconsin 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)
12,835 12th of 54 higher than 42 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
Wisconsin's 11,761 rated 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 · rated subset
- 11,761
- rated employers
- 12,835
- all reporting employers
- 254,546
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 12,835 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 14% B · 13% C · 24% D · 23% F · 25%
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 TCRWisconsin'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 rated-subset injury rate alone, Wisconsin is #30 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 11,761-employer subset), it's #15 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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 11,761 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 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
Page 133 of 257| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Specialty Surgery Center, LLC | Kenosha | Ambulatory surgical centers | C | 3.9 |
| Zorn Compressor & Equipment | Pewaukee | Compressors (except air-cond | D | 3.9 |
| Stowell Associates | Milwaukee | Home health care agencies | B | 3.9 |
| 3321 Family Fresh Market (New Richmond, Wi) | New Richmond | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.9 |
| Nalco Water Paper: Neenah, WI - PG122, PG134 | Neenah | Industrial chemicals merchan | D | 3.9 |
| Pointe Precision, Inc. | Plover | Machine shops | C | 3.8 |
| Sodexo at Wauwatosa School District | Wauwatosa | Food Service Contractors | D | 3.8 |
| Gordon Flesch Company (TLC) | Madison | Office equipment merchant wh | D | 3.8 |
| Malicki's Piggly Wiggly 345 | Lomira | Supermarkets | C | 3.8 |
| Wacker Neuson America Corporation- Logistics | Germantown | Aggregate spreaders manufact | C | 3.8 |
| Parkside Assisted Living | Deforest | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 3.8 |
| Putzmeister America Inc | Sturtevant | Concrete mixing machinery, p | C | 3.8 |
| Bay Insulation of Wisconsin | Green Bay | Fiberglass insulation produc | C | 3.8 |
| 183 Dph Milwaukee Downtown | Milwaukee | Hotel | D | 3.8 |
| Engendren Corporation | Kenosha | Radiators and cores manufact | B | 3.8 |
| Aurora Medical Center Kenosha | Kenosha | General medical and surgical | B | 3.8 |
| Skwi01-Sk-Sk - Monroe | Monroe | INJECTION MOLDING OF THERMOP | C | 3.8 |
| 561620-Chetek Po | Chetek | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.8 |
| Nu-Pak North | Boscobel | Dairy products (except canne | D | 3.8 |
| Mac Metal Products of Wi, Inc. | Germantown | Sheet metal work (except sta | C | 3.8 |
| 3495-11DA559 | Windsor | Medical Equipment | D | 3.8 |
| Energy Control & Design, Inc. | Appleton | Electrical, electrical wirin | D | 3.8 |
| Superior Diesel | Rhinelander | Engines, diesel and semidies | C | 3.8 |
| 4905 La Crosse | Onalaska | Home Centers | C | 3.8 |
| Sendiks Olympia LLC | Oconomowoc | Grocery stores | C | 3.8 |
| Charter Automotive | Milwaukee | Valves, engine, intake and e | B | 3.8 |
| 8027057-Phillips-Medisize / Menomonie WI | Menomonie | Staffing | D | 3.8 |
| Advanced Disposal - Wisconsin Rapids | Wisconsin Rapids | - | D | 3.8 |
| Wasco | Milwaukee | Windows and window frames, v | C | 3.8 |
| Shelmet Precision CastingCo., Inc. | Wild Rose | Foundries, steel investment | C | 3.8 |
| Green Bay 29 | Green Bay | Grocery stores | C | 3.8 |
| Vistar Wisconsin - 4001 | Jackson | - | D | 3.8 |
| Bay Tek Entertainment | Pulaski | Engineering services | F | 3.8 |
| NH-Mequon Community Hospital | Mequon | General medical and surgical | B | 3.8 |
| Total Electric Service, Inc. | Marshfield | Electrical contractors | D | 3.8 |
| Sun Prairie Operations | Sun Prairie | Handtools, power-driven, man | C | 3.8 |
| 5106 - Stevens Point | Stevens Point | Lawn Care | C | 3.8 |
| Loparex, Hammond | Hammond | Paper Bag and Coated and Tre | C | 3.8 |
| 327 - LaCrosse Youth | Onalaska | Adoption agencies | C | 3.8 |
| Mullins Cheese INC #2 | Marshfield | Curds, cheese, made in a che | C | 3.8 |
| Doubletree Hotel by Hilton Milwaukee | Milwaukee | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 3.8 |
| Van Horn Budget Auto | Plymouth | Automobile dealers, new only | C | 3.8 |
| Merrill Equipment Company | Merrill | Architectural metalwork manu | C | 3.8 |
| Mathews Archery, Inc. | Sparta, Wi | Archery equipment manufactur | C | 3.8 |
| Fairhaven Corporation | Whitewater | Nursing homes | B | 3.8 |
| Eau Claire Otr Transportation - 3049 | Eau Claire | General Freight Trucking, Lo | C | 3.8 |
| Lapham Hickey Steel Corp | Oshkosh | Tubing, flexible metal, manu | C | 3.8 |
| Kuhlman Incorporated | Menomonee Falls | Refrigeration system (e.g., | D | 3.8 |
| Nev's Ink Inc. | Waukesha | Offset printing (except book | C | 3.8 |
| Encore WI Hickory Park | Greenfield | Assisted Living Facilities f | C | 3.8 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Wisconsin: 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 (5.3 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (12,835 here).
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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.