General warehousing and storage · Tennessee

Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis

Memphis, TN · ~129 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General warehousing and storage workplace, earning a grade D.

Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis: 8.0 TCR = 137% of General warehousing and storage BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis safety composite

Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2017→2018

Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis injury rate improved

Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis's TCR fell 0.9 from 8.4 in 2017 to 7.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.4 · 2018=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 137% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #277/297
  • PHOTO Coke Northeast - Por…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coke Northeast - Portland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis averages 8.0 TCR (137% of the General warehousing and storage BLS benchmark).

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

Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis TCR series: 2017=8.4 · 2018=7.5 · BLS 5.8

Where Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis falls in its industry

9,477 General warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #277 safest of 297 General warehousing and storag employers in Tennessee.

Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis (129 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis
Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis (129 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Appleton Group, LLC - Memphis has more employees than the General warehousing and storage median and a higher 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
2018 7.5 7.5 9 0 0
2017 8.4 7.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · TN · Memphis

9,477 General warehousing and storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 Coke Northeast - Portland 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5177 Fresenius Medical Care 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fox Valley Farms 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor Warehouse- World Port 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - Communities 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leclerc Foods Tennessee 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAPP Greeneville 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 1 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 1075 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Interstate Sealant & Concrete Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Schult Richfield 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectrum America SCS 999 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 24FF 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland - RI 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland - BR 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Bear Creek 129 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: 2018, 2017. 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.