Narrow Fabric Mill · Wisconsin

AstenJohnson Appleton

Appleton, WI · ~138 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

AstenJohnson Appleton runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Narrow Fabric Mill workplace, earning a grade B.

AstenJohnson Appleton: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Narrow Fabric Mill BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AstenJohnson Appleton safety composite

AstenJohnson Appleton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

AstenJohnson Appleton: 0.8 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

AstenJohnson Appleton's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.8 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313220 · Appleton, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO AstenJohnson ~ Apple…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AstenJohnson ~ Appleton Forming (0.1 TCR gap)

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AstenJohnson Appleton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AstenJohnson Appleton averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Narrow Fabric Mill BLS benchmark).

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

AstenJohnson Appleton TCR series: 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=2.6 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where AstenJohnson Appleton falls in its industry

45 Narrow Fabric Mill establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Narrow Fabric Mill employers in Wisconsin.

AstenJohnson Appleton (138 employees, TCR 1.9) among 28 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 29 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate AstenJohnson Appleton
AstenJohnson Appleton (138 employees, TCR 1.9) among 28 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.8

AstenJohnson Appleton has more employees than the Narrow Fabric Mill median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 1.4 4 0 0
2023 2.2 0.0 3 0 0
2020 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2019 1.5 0.8 2 0 0
2018 1.7 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313220 · WI · Appleton

45 Narrow Fabric Mill 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR AstenJohnson ~ Appleton Forming 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Syntrex, LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Velcro MHT 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ultra-Flex 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pewaukee Customer Contact Center 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Century Fence Company 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westby Cooperative Creamery 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center Appleton 1,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Operations 1,321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fox Valley Technical College (WI) 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR TBDN Tennessee Company 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sause Bros. -- Coos Bay 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Distribution Center - Greencastle 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cambria Inns Collection 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ancira Motor Company 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mohawk Field Services, Inc. 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sika Madison Heights 138 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.