Overhead Traveling Cranes Manufacturing · Wisconsin

Appleton

Kaukauna, WI · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Appleton runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Overhead Traveling Cranes Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Appleton: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Overhead Traveling Cranes Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Appleton safety composite

Appleton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Appleton: 0.0 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2024

Appleton's TCR rose 8.8 from 0.0 in 2021 to 8.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333923 · Kaukauna, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Hoosier Crane Servic…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hoosier Crane Service Company - Elkhart (0.0 TCR gap)

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Appleton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Appleton averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Overhead Traveling Cranes Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Appleton TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Appleton falls in its industry

157 Overhead Traveling Cranes Manu establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Overhead Traveling Cranes Manu employers in Wisconsin.

Appleton (23 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Appleton
Appleton (23 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Appleton has fewer employees than the Overhead Traveling Cranes Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 8.8 4.4 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333923 · WI · Kaukauna

157 Overhead Traveling Cranes Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 71 employers in Kaukauna, 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 Hoosier Crane Service Company - Elkhart 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan Engineering Systems Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AK Steel 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR JLG - McConnellsburg 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE W3855 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Badger Unified Cooperative Services 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 768 New Richmond Agronomy 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 079 Evansville Agronomy 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thilmany Mill 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bassett Mechanical Corporate Office 446 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bassett Mechanical 435 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaukauna location 299 FTE
NAT-TCR Kraft Heinz Food Company 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lebanon, IN 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Batesville Casket Doll Plant 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennington Seed - GroTec I 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Composidie Toolex Div. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE CLARO / PRT - CAC Plaza Centro 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kiel Thomson Company 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE MFA Agri Service - Glasgow 23 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. 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.