Discount Department Stores · Wisconsin

0238 - Appleton

Appleton, WI · ~174 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0238 - Appleton runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

0238 - Appleton: 3.6 TCR = 106% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0238 - Appleton safety composite

0238 - Appleton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

0238 - Appleton: 0.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

0238 - Appleton's TCR rose 3.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Appleton, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 106% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #69/146
  • PHOTO 1323 - St Charles
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1323 - St Charles (0.0 TCR gap)

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0238 - Appleton in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 0238 - Appleton averages 3.6 TCR (106% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

0238 - Appleton TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=7.6 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 0238 - Appleton falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 146 Discount Department Stores employers in Wisconsin.

0238 - Appleton (174 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0238 - Appleton
0238 - Appleton (174 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0238 - Appleton has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 3.7 2.5 3 0 0
2023 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2022 7.6 7.6 0 7 0
2021 4.5 1.1 4 0 0
2020 3.5 2.4 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · WI · Appleton

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 356 employers in Appleton, WI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 1323 - St Charles 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1870 - Simpsonville 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #0766 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #2534 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lemberg Electric - Main Office 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3050 WALKER DR 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincoln Wood Products 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center Appleton 1,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Operations 1,321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fox Valley Technical College (WI) 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR 1323 - St Charles 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1870 - Simpsonville 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandridge Partners,LP 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Permacast, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0012 - Bridgeton 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0607 - Olympia 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0731 - Highland 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1012 - Niagara Falls 174 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.