State profile · OSHA ITA
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.
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.
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
Page 61 of 257| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strauss Brands Inc | Franklin | Meats fresh, chilled or froz | F | 7.0 |
| IQHWI West Bend WI | West Bend | Home health agencies | D | 7.0 |
| 1012 | Beaver Dam | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.0 |
| Care Partners of Eau Claire West | Eau Claire | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.0 |
| Oshkosh Plating Technologies Inc | Oshkosh | Plating metals and metal pro | F | 7.0 |
| Homme Home of Wittengerg | Wittenberg | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 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 |
| Heritage-7, LLC | West Allis | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 6.9 |
| Tufco LP | Green Bay | Wipes, nonwoven fabric, manu | F | 6.9 |
| Waukesha 40 | Waukesha | Grocery stores | F | 6.9 |
| Rib Falls | Marathon | Pipe, concrete, manufacturin | F | 6.9 |
| Steam Service Headquarters | Milwaukee | Electric power generation, h | F | 6.9 |
| S04119 - WI Weyerhaeuser | Weyerhaeuser | - | F | 6.9 |
| Heritage Health Services | Port Washington | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 6.9 |
| 4223-M1600 | Germantown | All Other General Merchandis | F | 6.9 |
| Gunderson Cleaners Inc | Menasha | Laundry services, industrial | F | 6.9 |
| Empire Level | Mukwonago | Handtools, power-driven, man | F | 6.9 |
| Magnicare, Inc. | Peshtigo | Nursing homes | C | 6.9 |
| 021-MIL | Sturtevant | Transportation | D | 6.9 |
| Schuette Metals | Rothschild | Angle irons, metal, manufact | F | 6.9 |
| Zimmerman Transfer Inc. | Dodgeville | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | D | 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 |
| Meijer Stores Limited Partnership | Wauwatosa | Commissaries, primarily groc | 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 |
| 1311 - New Berlin | New Berlin | Discount Department Stores | F | 6.9 |
| Twin City Tile and Marble, LLC | Eau Claire | Floor laying, scraping, fini | F | 6.9 |
| Save More Food Market Inc. | Minocqua | Food (i.e., groceries) store | F | 6.9 |
| Specialty Materials | River Falls | Thermoplastic resins and pla | F | 6.9 |
| Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. | Kenosha | General-line groceries merch | F | 6.9 |
| Oconomowoc, WI | Oconomowoc | Engines, internal combustion | F | 6.9 |
| Kraemer Brothers | Plain | Commercial building construc | F | 6.9 |
| Hansen's IGA Elroy | Elroy | Grocery stores | F | 6.9 |
| Wisconsin Rapids, Wi - 098 | Wisconsin Rapids | Industrial Launderers | F | 6.9 |
| Oak 32 | Green Bay | - | F | 6.9 |
| Clarcorp Industrial Sales | Waukesha | Industrial supplies (except | F | 6.9 |
| Renaissance - Weston | Weston | Assisted Living Facilities f | D | 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 |
| Americraft Cookware LLC | West Bend | Pots and pans, fabricated me | F | 6.9 |
| Amerequip Kiel | Kiel | Lawn and Garden Equipment | F | 6.9 |
| Lakeside Plastics, INC | Oshkosh | Swimming pool covers and lin | F | 6.9 |
| 702BRK | Brookfield | - | F | 6.9 |
| Norlen Incorporated - Wausau Location | Wausau | Fabricated plate work manufa | F | 6.9 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.
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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.