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 81 of 257| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeside Foods Inc. | Manitowoc | Frozen fruits, fruit juices, | D | 5.9 |
| Bradley Carrier Annex_1442575 | Milwaukee | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.9 |
| Central Pet Group, LLC (Milwaukee) | Milwaukee | Pet food merchant wholesaler | F | 5.9 |
| Pan-O-Gold Baking Company-West Allis, WI | West Allis | Bakery products, fresh (i.e. | D | 5.9 |
| C Nelson Enterprises | Oshkosh | Coating metals and metal pro | D | 5.9 |
| Tramontina U.S. Cookware | Manitowoc | Crowns, metal (e.g., bottle, | D | 5.9 |
| Russ Darrow Metro Mazda | Milwaukee | Automobile dealers, new only | D | 5.9 |
| Columbia Energy Center | Pardeeville | - | F | 5.8 |
| Southport Engineered Systems | Caledonia | Blower or fan, cooling and d | F | 5.8 |
| 1010 - Madison | Windsor | - | F | 5.8 |
| River City Transport, LLC | Eau Claire | Trucking, specialized freigh | D | 5.8 |
| Applied Solutions Group (ASG) : Wakefield-Withee | Withee | - | D | 5.8 |
| Interstate Blood Bank, Inc. - Milwaukee (National), WI | Milwaukee | Plasmapheresis centers | D | 5.8 |
| Milwaukee | Waueksha | - | D | 5.8 |
| MKE-ITP | Milwaukee | Aircraft Fuelling | D | 5.8 |
| J & S General Contracting LLP | Osceola | Excavating, earthmoving, or | F | 5.8 |
| Lakeside Foods - Manitowoc Plant | Manitowoc | Canning fruits and vegetable | D | 5.8 |
| Quality Paint & Coatings | Oshkosh | Painting metals and metal pr | D | 5.8 |
| 4940 Menomonee Falls | Menomonee Falls | Home Centers | D | 5.8 |
| Bloomer Machine & Fab Inc | Bloomer | Pipe, fabricated metal plate | D | 5.8 |
| Fabricated Metal Products | Cudahy | Fabricated plate work manufa | D | 5.8 |
| Mueller Excavating, Inc. | Campbellsport | Excavating, earthmoving, or | F | 5.8 |
| Nuss Truck & Equipment- Eau Claire | Eau Claire | Truck repair shops, general | F | 5.8 |
| Prestige Custom Cabinetry and Millwork Inc | Green Bay | Cabinets, kitchen (except fr | D | 5.8 |
| 534-00127 | Phillips | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.8 |
| Daigle Brothers | Tomahawk | Structural steel, fabricated | D | 5.8 |
| 2583 Market Place Hayward, WI | Hayward | Retail Grocery | D | 5.8 |
| Wiskerchen Truck & Equipment LLC | Spencer | Heavy trucks assembling on p | D | 5.8 |
| Agrace Hospice/Dodgeville | Dodgeville | 621610 Home Health Care Serv | C | 5.8 |
| Williamson St. Thrift Store | Madison | Thrift shops, used merchandi | D | 5.8 |
| Advanced Disposal - Horicon | Horicon | - | F | 5.8 |
| Ursa Logistics-OC | Oak Creek | Bulk mail truck transportati | D | 5.8 |
| SPDC | Stevens Point | Sales and Distribution | C | 5.8 |
| The Waterford at Fitchburg | Fitchburg | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.8 |
| Anderson Custom Processing | Belleville | Starches (except laundry) ma | D | 5.8 |
| LaClare Creamery, LLC | Malone | Cheese (except cottage chees | D | 5.8 |
| FyterTech Nonwovens, LLC | De Pere | Nonwoven fabrics manufacturi | D | 5.8 |
| Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery | Shullsburg | Cheese (except cottage chees | D | 5.8 |
| Wabash New Lisbon | New Lisbon | Truck Trailers | D | 5.8 |
| KDC-One Northern Labs | Manitowoc | Laundry soap, chips, and pow | D | 5.8 |
| Alter Metal Recycling - Green Bay | Green Bay | General-line scrap merchant | F | 5.8 |
| Marinette SD* | Marinette | - | D | 5.8 |
| S10373 - Advanced Disposal Sheboygan | Sheboygan | - | F | 5.8 |
| HG800 | Eau Claire | Homefurnishings stores | D | 5.8 |
| 2335 | Madison | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.8 |
| General Stamping and Metal Works Tomah | Tomah | Plate work (e.g., bending, c | D | 5.8 |
| Coulee Region Mechanical Contractors, Inc. | La Crosse | Plumbing and heating contrac | F | 5.8 |
| Edgerton T & M | Edgerton | Specialized Freight (except | D | 5.8 |
| Rib Mountain | Wausau | 453310 Used Merchandise Stor | D | 5.8 |
| CCA Hudson #30 (PDC) | Hudson | General warehousing and stor | C | 5.8 |
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.