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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
Eder Flag Manufacturing Company Inc Oak Creek Flagpoles, metal, manufactur D 5.1
Processing Plant Wisconsin Rapids Dried and Dehydrated Food Ma D 5.1
AGRA Construction Merrill Prefabricated buildings, met D 5.1
Sommers Automotive Mequon Automobile dealers, new only D 5.1
Aurora West Allis Medical Center West Allis General medical and surgical B 5.1
Conrad Schmitt Studios, Inc. New Berlin Painting and wallpapering D 5.1
Dave Jones Inc. Madison Plumbing and heating contrac D 5.1
Lakefield Veterinary Group - 149 Hudson Veterinary Services F 5.1
WI050 Sheboygan Container Sheboygan - D 5.1
SD of Denmark Denmark - D 5.1
Trudell Trailers of Milwaukee, Inc. Oak Creek Truck trailer merchant whole F 5.1
565950-New Richmond Po New Richmond Mail and Parcel Delivery C 5.1
MicroStar Quality Services - CO4 Green Bay Metals service centers F 5.1
Advanced Disposal - Marshfield Hauling Marshfield - D 5.1
Meriter Hospital Madison Health Care B 5.1
D & D Equipment Co., Inc Chilton Planting machinery and equip F 5.1
Home Path Financial Butler Fiduciaries', real estate, o F 5.1
Camp St. Croix Hudson - F 5.1
ThedaCare Regional Medical Center - Neenah Neenah General medical and surgical B 5.1
Butler Butler Insulation materials (except F 5.1
Blackman Inc/dba New Tech Metals New Franken Sheet metal work (except sta D 5.1
Best Bargains Inc. New Munster Nondurable goods business to F 5.1
Multitek North America, LLC Prentice Bits, rock drill, oil and ga D 5.1
Ability Engineering Technology South Holland Tanks, heavy gauge metal, ma D 5.1
Sendik's Food Market West Bend West Bend Grocery stores D 5.1
Diesel Forward, Inc WI Windsor Motor vehicle parts and acce F 5.1
Krupp General Contractors, LLC Madison Commercial building construc D 5.1
Mark's Transportation, Inc. Junction City Motor freight carrier, gener C 5.1
BCI Exteriors, Inc. Menomonee Falls Housing, single-family, cons D 5.1
1011 - La Crosse La Crosse - F 5.1
Janesville - Main Store Janesville Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.1
Ohly Americas Boyceville Spices and spice mix manufac D 5.1
Diversified Seed Producers Deforest Agriculture production or ha C 5.1
TOMAH_1384792 Tomah Mail and Parcel Delivery C 5.1
Coil Building Sparta Air system balancing and tes D 5.1
Steele Solutions Inc - South Milwaukee South Milwaukee Fabricated structural metal D 5.1
Kemps Cedarburg Plant Cedarburg Milk processing (e.g., bottl D 5.1
4186-04937 Superior Dollar Stores D 5.1
South Plant & Corporate Madison Foundries, die-casting, alum D 5.1
Technical Prospects, LLC Appleton Medical instruments merchant F 5.1
Spancrete - SMC Waukesha Architectural wall panels, p D 5.1
Eagle Crest North Onalaska Continuing care retirement c D 5.1
Mid Wisconsin concrete & Excavating LLC Spencer Chimney, concrete, construct D 5.1
Kunes Chrysler of Platteville Platteville Camper dealers, recreational D 5.1
Total Care Group Port Washington - D 5.1
4911 Janesville Janesville Home Centers D 5.1
Bill's Food Center Oregon Grocery stores D 5.1
HG1005 Sun Prairie Homefurnishings stores D 5.1
SpecSys Inc Prentice Prentice Barge sections, prefabricate D 5.1
Seneca Foods Cambria Cambria Vegetable canning D 5.1
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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.