All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery · Maryland

Appleton North

Elkton, MD · ~228 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Appleton North runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery workplace, earning a grade B.

Appleton North: 1.9 TCR = 57% of All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Appleton North safety composite

Appleton North scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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 North: 1.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

Appleton North's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.0 in 2019 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Elkton, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #7/17
  • PHOTO Pelham Plastics Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~228 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pelham Plastics Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Appleton North in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Appleton North averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery BLS benchmark).

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

Appleton North TCR series: 2019=1 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=1 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Appleton North falls in its industry

2,838 All Other Miscellaneous Genera establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 17 All Other Miscellaneous Genera employers in Maryland.

Appleton North (228 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Appleton North
Appleton North (228 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Appleton North has more employees than the All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose 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 2.7 1.6 4 1 0
2023 1.0 0.5 1 1 0
2022 3.7 1.6 7 0 0
2021 2.3 1.7 2 2 0
2020 0.5 0.5 0 1 0
2019 1.0 0.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MD · Elkton

2,838 All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery 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 Pelham Plastics Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Contine Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perrysburg 1102 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creative Plastic Concepts 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coty Inc. DBA Noxell Corp 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1717 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE CORPORATE CENTRAL DISTRIBUTION 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roland Park Place 228 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 Gloversville Health Center 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Palmetto Warehouse/Feeder 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pressboard Paper Technologies LLC. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Underground Construction 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fapco inc 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ateeco Inc. 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denver 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE IBP Support Group 228 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.