Gasket,Packing And Sealing Device Manufacturing · Maryland

Appleton East

Elkton, MD · ~283 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Appleton East runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Gasket,Packing And Sealing Device Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Appleton East: 1.8 TCR = 56% of Gasket,Packing And Sealing Device Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Appleton East safety composite

Appleton East scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Appleton East held a steady TCR band

Appleton East's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.0 in 2019 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.0 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339991 · Elkton, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK P63
  • PHOTO PPC Mechanical Seals
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~283 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PPC Mechanical Seals (0.0 TCR gap)

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Appleton East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Appleton East averages 1.8 TCR (56% of the Gasket,Packing And Sealing Device Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Appleton East TCR series: 2019=1 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=3 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Appleton East falls in its industry

218 Gasket,Packing And Sealing Dev establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Appleton East (283 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Appleton East
Appleton East (283 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Appleton East has more employees than the Gasket,Packing And Sealing Device Manufa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 1.2 0.8 3 0 0
2023 0.8 0.0 1 1 0
2022 3.7 2.8 4 4 0
2021 3.0 3.0 6 0 0
2020 1.4 0.5 2 1 0
2019 1.0 1.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339991 · MD · Elkton

218 Gasket,Packing And Sealing Device Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 76 employers in Elkton, MD · 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 PPC Mechanical Seals 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klinger IGI, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garrettsville, OH, USA 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lamons - Baton Rouge 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Home Chef - Baltimore 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2271 - Annapolis 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5344 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hospice of the Chesapeake 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Union Hospital of Cecil County 1,231 FTE
CITY-NEAR TERUMO MEDICAL CORPORATION 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton 630 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGDS-MD50 597 FTE
NAT-TCR Denny's 7383 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Summa Health - Summa Care 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunrise 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Collins Machine Works 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pittsburgh Glass Works 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 20016 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE New England Donor Services 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE MyMichigan Medical Center Clare 283 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.

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

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