Manufacture of special purpose vehicles (e.g. firefighting vehicles) · Wisconsin

American Drive Plants

Name: American Drive Plants Workplace Safety Data
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Appleton, WI · ~1,173 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

American Drive Plants runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Manufacture of special purpose vehicles (e.g. firefighting vehicles) workplace, earning a grade B.

American Drive Plants: 2.4 TCR = 74% of Manufacture of special purpose vehicles (e.g. firefighting vehicles) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Drive Plants safety composite

American Drive Plants scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

American Drive Plants: 2.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

American Drive Plants's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.0 in 2023 to 2.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336120 · Appleton, WI AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 74% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #15/29
PHOTO DYNACRAFT, A PACCAR …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 62 inj
SIZE ~1,173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DYNACRAFT, A PACCAR COMPANY. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Commercial Veh

2.5
Sutphen Urbana

2.5
This site

2.4
DYNACRAFT, A P

2.4
Daimler Truck

2.4

What this shows American Drive Plants averages 2.4 TCR (74% of the Manufacture of special purpose vehicles (e.g. firefighting vehicles) BLS benchmark).

American Drive Plants TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where American Drive Plants falls in its industry

124 Manufacture of special purpose establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 29 Manufacture of special purpose employers in Wisconsin.

American Drive Plants (1,173 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 223 employees and a TCR of 3.5

American Drive Plants has more employees than the Manufacture of special purpose vehicles median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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	2.8	1.9	38	0	0
2023	2.0	0.8	24	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336120 · WI · Appleton

124 Manufacture of special purpose vehicles (e.g. firefighting vehicles) 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	DYNACRAFT, A PACCAR COMPANY.	MCKINNEY, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, TX	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Daimler Truck North America	MT HOLLY, NC	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Commercial Vehicle Group	DUBLIN, VA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sutphen Urbana	URBANA, OH	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Promega Corp	MADISON	1,172 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMZL : DMS1	EAGAN	1,177 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Service Center Operations : 0780	JANESVILLE	1,158 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pieper Electric, Inc.	NEW BERLIN	1,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ThedaCare Regional Medical Center Appleton	Appleton	1,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton	Appleton	1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northern Operations	Appleton	1,321 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fox Valley Technical College (WI)	Appleton	1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR	Southern Indiana Power	Tell City, IN	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kybon - Scs-Hebron - 3998	Hebron, KY	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Neaub - Auburn	Auburn, NE	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	American HOWA Kentucky	Bowling Green, KY	2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Campbell Soup Supply Company, INC	Maxton, NC	1,173 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Processing Plant	Hattiesburg, MS	1,173 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ro Health, LLC	Seattle, WA	1,173 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cumming Plant	Cumming, GA	1,173 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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