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 52 of 257| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wm 5373 | Chippewa Falls | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.6 |
| 979 | Sparta | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.6 |
| Whitehall Specialties - Plant 2 | Whitehall | Cheese products, imitation o | F | 7.5 |
| AAA Hardwoods | Weyauwega | Custom sawmills | F | 7.5 |
| DACO Precision-Tool, Inc | Kewaskum | Stampings (except automotive | F | 7.5 |
| Gordy's Eau Claire Clairemont Foods, Inc | Eau Claire | Grocery stores | F | 7.5 |
| Antigo | Antigo | 453310 Used Merchandise Stor | F | 7.5 |
| Ir Dc Internal Transportation - 3851 | Iron Ridge | General Freight Trucking, Lo | D | 7.5 |
| Dimensions Management of Chippewa Falls | Chippewa Falls | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 7.5 |
| The Grand Hills Castle | New Berlin | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.5 |
| CMC Construction Inc. - Ashland, WI | Ashland | Apartment building construct | D | 7.5 |
| Jones Dairy Farm | Fort Atkinson | Processed meats manufacturin | F | 7.5 |
| Oshkosh Wi Depot | Oshkosh | Commercial Bakeries | F | 7.5 |
| Walnut Hollow Farm Inc | Dodgeville | Applicators, wood, manufactu | F | 7.5 |
| WRR | Eau Claire | Acid waste disposal faciliti | F | 7.5 |
| Baldwin Care Center, Inc. | Baldwin | Nursing homes | C | 7.5 |
| PHS - Avalon Square | Waukesha | - | D | 7.5 |
| Concrete Specialties Co-Kenosha | Kenosha | Concrete products, precast ( | F | 7.5 |
| Wildeck, Inc. - North | Waukesha | Barge sections, prefabricate | F | 7.5 |
| 2586 - Wauwatosa | Wauwatosa | Discount Department Stores | F | 7.5 |
| Society of St. Vincent de Paul Green Bay | Green Bay | Thrift shops, used merchandi | F | 7.5 |
| LindenGrove Communities - Waukesha - Linden Heights | Waukesha | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.5 |
| CWPWI, Inc. dba College Works Painting | Madison | House painting | F | 7.5 |
| Klondike Cheese Co. | Monroe | Cheese, natural (except cott | F | 7.5 |
| GPI Corporation | Schofield | Tanks, storage, plastics or | F | 7.5 |
| American Materials | Eau Claire | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | F | 7.5 |
| Plant 1 | Menomonee Falls | Metal stampings (except auto | F | 7.5 |
| Freedom Metals | Coleman | Machine shops | F | 7.5 |
| Beaver Holdings, Inc dba Shell Lake Woodcrafters | Shell Lake | Nonupholstered, household-ty | F | 7.5 |
| 560370-Ashland Po | Ashland | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.5 |
| Renaissance - DePere | Depere | Assisted Living Facilities f | D | 7.5 |
| Ellis Stone Construction Company, Inc. | Stevens Point | Addition, alteration and ren | F | 7.5 |
| Saputo Cheese USA, Inc. | Belmont | Cheese, natural (except cott | F | 7.5 |
| Advanced Laser | Chippewa Falls | Bins, fabricated metal plate | F | 7.5 |
| Northwest Tool & Manufacturing Inc | Wausau | Special Die and Tool, Die Se | F | 7.5 |
| Wm 965 | Tomah | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.5 |
| Western Service Center-1B | Eau Claire | Electric Power Distribution | F | 7.5 |
| Mill Haven Foods | New Lisbon | Dry milk manufacturing | F | 7.5 |
| Younkers 439 | Sturgeon Bay | Department stores (except di | F | 7.5 |
| CALF (Conversion and Labelling Facility) | Cashton | Videoconferencing services | F | 7.5 |
| Copesan Services, Inc. dba Wil-Kil Pest Control - Appleton | Appleton | Pest control (except agricul | D | 7.5 |
| 8350_18995 | New Franken | - | F | 7.5 |
| GHL International Inc | Cedarburg | Cat litter manufacturing | F | 7.5 |
| Calibre, Inc. - Hwy. W Facility | Grafton | Painting metals and metal pr | F | 7.5 |
| Fox Valley Tool & Die Inc. | Kaukauna | Jigs (e.g., checking, gaugin | F | 7.5 |
| 1502 Lkq | Janesville | Motor vehicle parts, used, m | F | 7.5 |
| Ashland Clinic | Ashland | Family physicians' offices ( | D | 7.5 |
| Versiti Waukesha | Milwaukee | Blood banks | D | 7.5 |
| Brabazon Pumpe Company, Ltd | Green Bay | Commercial and industrial ma | F | 7.5 |
| Continental Plastic Corporation | Delavan | Acrylic film and unlaminated | F | 7.5 |
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.