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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
Widod - Dodgeville Dodgeville Couriers and Express Deliver C 5.7
Midwest Tops, Inc. of Oostburg Milwaukee - D 5.7
Wm 1396 Baraboo Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.7
Dillett Mechanical Service, Inc. Waukesha Mechanical contractors F 5.7
PSSI - 0763 Klement's Sausage Company Milwaukee Janitorial Services D 5.7
Almo Distributing Wisconsin, Inc. Menquon Consumer electronics merchan F 5.7
Ancra Group : Wakefield-Withee Withee - D 5.7
City of Waterotwn Watertown Auditor's offices, governmen D 5.7
Sam Van Galder Bus Janesville Motor coach operation, inter D 5.7
Kohler Co. - Global Maintenance Systems Kohler Industrial equipment and mac F 5.7
Arrow Tool & Stamping Co., Inc. Milwaukee Shims, metal, manufacturing D 5.7
Sanimax ATO, Inc. - DeForest De Forest Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi D 5.7
Spectra Print Stevens Point Offset printing (except book D 5.7
Reedsburg Reedsburg Direct mailers (i.e., sellin D 5.7
Parker Plastics WI Pleasant Prairie Bottles, plastics, manufactu D 5.7
Swanstrom Tools USA Superior Tools, handheld, nonpowered D 5.7
Mayville South Mayville Tinfoil not made in rolling D 5.7
Hall's Calf Ranch Kewanee Cattle farming or ranching D 5.7
Madison Plant Madison Air purification equipment, D 5.7
4535-0282 Greendale Retail/Home Furnishings D 5.7
Janesville Gazette Janesville Newspaper branch offices F 5.7
Berlin Office Berlin - F 5.7
Breakthru Beverage Hartland Alcoholic beverages, wine an F 5.7
Steel Craft Corporation Hartford Plate work (e.g., bending, c D 5.7
ViskoTeepak LLC Kenosha Casings, sausage, nonrigid p D 5.7
Merrill Fabrication Merrill Angle irons, metal, manufact D 5.7
Complete Fire Solutions, Inc. Neenah Fire sprinkler system instal F 5.7
BlueScope Buildings North America Evansville Buildings, prefabricated met D 5.7
566950-Reedsburg Po Reedsburg Mail and Parcel Delivery D 5.7
Straus Knitting Mills St. Croix Falls Fabrics, nonwoven, manufactu D 5.7
Touchmark on West Prospect LLC Appleton Retirement Communities D 5.7
Saputo Cheese-Black Creek Black Creek Manufacturing D 5.7
Spincraft (WI) New Berlin Spinning unfinished metal pr D 5.7
112 Brookfield, Wi Brookfield Family Clothing Stores D 5.7
43621b - Milwaukee Dc Menomonee Fallls - F 5.7
Neenah Neenah Paper Bag and Coated and Tre D 5.7
MMC- Marshfield Marshfield General medical and surgical B 5.7
The Waterford at Park Falls Park Falls Homes for the elderly with n C 5.7
Howard Green Bay Dentists' offices (e.g., cen D 5.7
KK Way Wausau General freight trucking, lo D 5.7
Brewster Street Appleton Activity centers for disable D 5.7
Allan Gerke & Sons Tomah Agricultural products trucki D 5.7
L&M Fleet Supply Ashland Ashland Department stores (except di D 5.7
JFW WI Operations Sturtevant Sporting goods stores D 5.7
Birchrock Castle Mukwonago Retirement homes with nursin C 5.7
Lutheran Home Wauwatosa Nursing Care Facilities (Ski C 5.7
Ahscm28 Alexian Village Milwaukee Milwaukee Nursing Care Facilities Ski C 5.7
Research Products Corporation - Madison Madison Filters, air-conditioner, ma D 5.7
Lakeview Wi (Pleasant Prairie) Pleasant Prairie Other Grocery and Related Pr F 5.7
1551 Franklin Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.7
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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.