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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
1007 Richland Center Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.2
8167 Franklin Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.2
ACI Oshkosh Oshkosh Coating metals and metal pro D 5.2
Chandler Exhibits, Inc. Hudson, WI Hudson Architectural woodwork and f D 5.2
XDS Holdings Neenah Infrared ovens, industrial, D 5.2
Sauk Prairie Healthcare - Hospital Campus Prairie Du Sac General medical and surgical B 5.2
Faulks Bros. Construction, Inc. Waupaca Limestone (except bituminous F 5.2
Beloit Health and Rehabilitation Center Beloit Nursing homes B 5.2
Wimil104 Ascension Se Wi - St Joseph Campus Milwaukee General Medical and Surgical B 5.2
Bethany St Joseph Care Center La Crosse Health Care - Temporary Serv D 5.2
Newark Paperboard Products Oshkosh Bobbins, fiber, made from pu D 5.2
1020 - Middleton Wi Whse Middleton Warehouse clubs (i.e., food D 5.2
Azura Memory Care of Wausau Wausau Assisted-living facilities w D 5.2
Spectrum Aluminum Finishing Muskego Anodizing metals and metal p D 5.2
Interstate Blood and Plasma - Madison (Anderson), WI Madison Plasmapheresis centers D 5.2
Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI) Reedsburg Butter manufacturing D 5.2
Helwig Carbon Products, Inc. Milwaukee Brush blocks, carbon or mold D 5.2
Radisson - La Crosse La Crosse Hotels (except casino hotels D 5.2
Aurora Medical Center Two Rivers Two Rivers General medical and surgical B 5.2
2532 Beloit Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.2
Rennes Health & Rehab Center-East Peshtigo Skilled nursing facilities B 5.2
Breakthru Beverage Eau Claire Eau Claire Alcoholic beverages, wine an F 5.2
Service Motor Company Seymour Seymour Farm machinery and equipment F 5.2
Metcalfe's Market- Hilldale Madison Grocery stores D 5.2
Wildwood Family Clinic S.C. Madison MDs' (medical doctors, excep D 5.2
Cumberland Healthcare-Hospital Cumberland Hospitals, general medical a B 5.2
1246 - Sturgeon Bay Sturgeon Bay Discount Department Stores D 5.2
Refractory Service Inc Jackson Foundry machinery and equipm F 5.2
Lake Country Dairy Turtle Lake Cheese (except cottage chees D 5.2
Cedar Lake Health & Rehabilitation Center West Bend Skilled nursing facilities B 5.2
Bill's Distributing, LTD Menomonie Alcoholic beverages, wine an F 5.2
Woodman's Food Market Kenosha 27 Kenosha Grocery stores D 5.2
Topcon Positiong Systems-Fort Atkinson, WI Fort Atkinson Scales, including laboratory D 5.2
Auburndale Feed Mill Auburndale Alfalfa meal, dehydrated, ma D 5.2
Good Shepherd Nursing Home Seymour Nursing homes B 5.2
Bellin Health Systems-1000 Green Bay General Medical and Surgical B 5.2
Appleton 22 Appleton Grocery stores D 5.2
Graetz Mfg Inc Pound Machine shops D 5.2
1060 - Madison West Madison Discount Department Stores D 5.2
6641_15347 Waukesha - D 5.2
Azura Kenosha Kenosha Assisted Living Facilities f D 5.2
534-00382 New Berlin Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.2
Kay Beer Distributing Inc De Pere Fermented malt beverages mer F 5.2
MAG Buick GMC Monroe Automobile dealers, new only D 5.2
Park Street Port Washington Closures, metal, stamping D 5.2
Marvel Manufacturing Company, Inc. Oshkosh Metal casting machinery and D 5.2
Environment Control of WI, Inc. Madison Building cleaning services, C 5.2
Gordy's Neillsville Foods, Inc. Neillsville Commissaries, primarily groc D 5.2
Trulite Glass and Aluminum Solutions New Berlin Insulating glass, sealed uni D 5.2
APP PRO of Appleton, Inc. Appleton Hotels (except casino hotels D 5.2
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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.