Lawn Care · Wisconsin

5991 - Appleton

Appleton, WI · ~51 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5991 - Appleton runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade C.

5991 - Appleton: 4.4 TCR = 98% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5991 - Appleton safety composite

5991 - Appleton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

5991 - Appleton held a steady TCR band

5991 - Appleton's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.5 in 2017 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Appleton, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #29/69
  • PHOTO Princeton
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Princeton (0.0 TCR gap)

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5991 - Appleton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5991 - Appleton averages 4.4 TCR (98% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5991 - Appleton TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 4.5

Where 5991 - Appleton falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 69 Lawn Care employers in Wisconsin.

5991 - Appleton (51 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 5991 - Appleton
5991 - Appleton (51 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5991 - Appleton has fewer employees than the Lawn Care median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 9.6 9.6 4 0 0
2022 6.8 6.8 3 0 0
2021 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2020 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2019 8.4 8.4 4 0 0
2018 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2017 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · WI · Appleton

2,875 Lawn Care 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 Princeton 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5057 - Lewisville 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5325 - Portland 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fitzgerald's 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Biddick, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delafield 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.F. Tomasini Contractors, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraemer North America - Iowa - All Others 51 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 5325 - Portland 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 5057 - Lewisville 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1047 - Clarksville 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 10792 Jackson Wyoming 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5815 - Woodlawn 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5602 - Austell 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5809 - Warminster 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5755 - Des Moines 51 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.