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 61 of 257| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oshkosh Plating Technologies Inc | Oshkosh | Plating metals and metal pro | F | 7.0 |
| MAP Automotive of Milwaukee | Wauwatosa | Automobile merchant wholesal | F | 7.0 |
| 1012 | Beaver Dam | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.0 |
| IQHWI West Bend WI | West Bend | Home health agencies | D | 7.0 |
| Care Partners of Eau Claire West | Eau Claire | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.0 |
| Tufco LP | Green Bay | Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manu | F | 6.9 |
| Russel Metals Williams Bahcall Milwaukee WI | Milwaukee | Metals service centers | F | 6.9 |
| L&M Fleet Supply Rhinelander | Rhinelander | Department stores (except di | F | 6.9 |
| Homme Home of Wittengerg | Wittenberg | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 6.9 |
| Heritage-7, LLC | West Allis | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 6.9 |
| Steam Service Headquarters | Milwaukee | Electric power generation, h | F | 6.9 |
| Rib Falls | Marathon | Pipe, concrete, manufacturin | F | 6.9 |
| Empire Level | Mukwonago | Handtools, power-driven, man | F | 6.9 |
| Waukesha 40 | Waukesha | Grocery stores | F | 6.9 |
| 4223-M1600 | Germantown | All Other General Merchandis | F | 6.9 |
| S04119 - WI Weyerhaeuser | Weyerhaeuser | - | F | 6.9 |
| Heritage Health Services | Port Washington | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 6.9 |
| Magnicare, Inc. | Peshtigo | Nursing homes | C | 6.9 |
| Gunderson Cleaners Inc | Menasha | Laundry services, industrial | F | 6.9 |
| Hallmark Drywall, Inc | Madison | Commercial building construc | F | 6.9 |
| Onalaska, WI | Onalaska | Crane rental with operator | F | 6.9 |
| Huffcutt | Chippewa Falls | Precast concrete products (e | F | 6.9 |
| 1000 Badger Circle | Grafton | Stampings (except automotive | F | 6.9 |
| Robbins Manufacturing, Inc. | Fall River | Metal stampings (except auto | F | 6.9 |
| Schuette Metals | Rothschild | Angle irons, metal, manufact | F | 6.9 |
| Meijer Stores Limited Partnership | Wauwatosa | Commissaries, primarily groc | F | 6.9 |
| 021-MIL | Sturtevant | Transportation | D | 6.9 |
| Zimmerman Transfer Inc. | Dodgeville | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | D | 6.9 |
| Kraemer Brothers | Plain | Commercial building construc | F | 6.9 |
| Twin City Tile and Marble, LLC | Eau Claire | Floor laying, scraping, fini | F | 6.9 |
| Specialty Materials | River Falls | Thermoplastic resins and pla | F | 6.9 |
| Steelwind Industries, Inc. | Oak Creek | Architectural coatings (i.e. | F | 6.9 |
| BF Custom Machining - Frederic | Frederic | Machine shops | F | 6.9 |
| Vorteq Coil Finishers Oconomowoc | Oconomowoc | Aluminum coating of metal pr | F | 6.9 |
| Oconomowoc, WI | Oconomowoc | Engines, internal combustion | F | 6.9 |
| Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. | Kenosha | General-line groceries merch | F | 6.9 |
| Save More Food Market Inc. | Minocqua | Food (i.e., groceries) store | F | 6.9 |
| Hansen's IGA Elroy | Elroy | Grocery stores | F | 6.9 |
| Oak 32 | Green Bay | - | F | 6.9 |
| 1311 - New Berlin | New Berlin | Discount Department Stores | F | 6.9 |
| Wisconsin Rapids, Wi - 098 | Wisconsin Rapids | Industrial Launderers | F | 6.9 |
| Americraft Cookware LLC | West Bend | Pots and pans, fabricated me | F | 6.9 |
| Amerequip Kiel | Kiel | Lawn and Garden Equipment | F | 6.9 |
| Clarcorp Industrial Sales | Waukesha | Industrial supplies (except | F | 6.9 |
| Synergy Barron C-Store | Barron | Convenience food stores | F | 6.9 |
| Star Line Trucking Corp | New Berlin | Trucking, general freight, l | D | 6.9 |
| Renaissance - Weston | Weston | Assisted Living Facilities f | D | 6.9 |
| Lakeside Plastics, INC | Oshkosh | Swimming pool covers and lin | F | 6.9 |
| Norlen Incorporated - Wausau Location | Wausau | Fabricated plate work manufa | F | 6.9 |
| La Crosse Sign Group | Onalaska | Electrical signs manufacturi | F | 6.9 |
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.