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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
Malicki's Piggly Wiggly 342 Oak Creek Grocery stores F 7.7
Motor Lodge Associates of Madison LLC Madison Hotels (except casino hotels F 7.7
EMS - Sycamore of River Falls River Falls - F 7.7
Sodexo at Edgewood College Madison Food Service Contractors F 7.7
Wm 1430 Oshkosh Warehouse Clubs and Supercen F 7.7
ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton Appleton General medical and surgical C 7.7
1446 Rice Lake Warehouse Clubs and Supercen F 7.7
ConsTrucks Inc Stevens Point Trucking, specialized freigh D 7.7
Power Systems Division - South Appleton Arc welding equipment manufa F 7.7
Pawn America Madison Madison Pawnshops F 7.7
Valley VNA Senior Care Neenah Assisted-living facilities w F 7.7
A.C.E. Building Service Manitowoc Erecting structural steel F 7.7
Midwest Medical Transport Company - Brown Deer Station Milwaukee Ambulance Services F 7.7
Triton Trailers Hartford Travel trailers, recreationa F 7.7
Hunter Douglas Window Designs LLC Appleton Converting textiles F 7.7
Location #2 Madison General-line groceries merch F 7.7
567900-Stevens Point Po Stevens Point Mail and Parcel Delivery D 7.7
RW Lyall New Berlin Bends, pipe, made from purch F 7.7
Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery Ellsworth Curds, cheese, made in a che F 7.7
Food Concepts Inc Middleton Displays (e.g., counter, flo F 7.7
Lippmann Milwaukee Cudahy Rock crushing machinery, por F 7.7
Lake Assault Boats, LLC Superior Boat yards (i.e., boat manuf F 7.7
540-FC006 Pleasant Prairie General Warehouse and Storag D 7.7
Trulite Glass & Aluminum New Berlin New Berlin Glass products (except packa F 7.7
New Berlin Grading, Inc. New Berlin Excavating, earthmoving, or F 7.7
Upland Hills Health - Nursing & Rehab Center Dodgeville Nursing homes C 7.7
Createscape landscaping Service Inc Mukwonago Landscape care and maintenan D 7.7
The Bruce Company of Wisconsin Middleton Landscaping services (except D 7.7
CLINTONVILLE_1358426 Clintonville Mail and Parcel Delivery D 7.7
Ignite Medical Resort Oak Creek OPCO LLC Oak Creek Skilled nursing facilities C 7.7
033-FF01-MENASHA Menasha RETAIL - GROCERY F 7.7
03 - Oshkosh Oshkosh Metals service centers F 7.7
K-Wood Truss Rafters, Inc. Grantsburg Manufacturing building const F 7.7
Rytec Corporation Jackson Rolling doors for industrial F 7.7
S & N, Inc. and Subsidiaries Merrill Pavement, highway, road, str F 7.7
U-Line Corporation Milwaukee Freezers, chest and upright F 7.7
Burlington Wi - 3212 Burlington Home Centers F 7.7
Ornua Ingredients North America Hilbert Cheese (except cottage chees F 7.7
Pine Crest Nursing Home Merrill Nursing homes C 7.7
1277 Black River Falls Warehouse Clubs and Supercen F 7.7
Northern Valley Workshop Inc Wausau Packaging services (except p F 7.7
Chetek Core Products Chetek Supports, orthopedic (e.g., F 7.7
Wm 979 Sparta Warehouse Clubs and Supercen F 7.7
Kretz Lumber Co., Inc. Antigo Sawmills F 7.7
568641-Wka-New Berlin Br New Berlin Mail and Parcel Delivery D 7.7
164 Pleasant Prairie Wi Pleasant Prairie SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER GROCE F 7.7
Glenmore Denmark Cheese, natural (except cott F 7.7
Hanson Masonry & Concrete, LLC Owen Masonry contractors F 7.6
Fabri-Tech, Inc. Brookfield Sheet metal work (except sta F 7.6
Emmi Roth USA - Seymour Seymour Cheese (except cottage chees F 7.6
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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.