Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Bemis North America - Appleton

Name: Bemis North America - Appleton Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Appleton, WI · ~276 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Bemis North America - Appleton runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Bemis North America - Appleton: 0.6 TCR = 19% of Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bemis North America - Appleton safety composite

Bemis North America - Appleton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Bemis North America - Appleton: 0.3 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2018

Bemis North America - Appleton's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.3 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326112 · Appleton, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 19% of ind

DART 0.8 DART
RANK #3/50
PHOTO Films 2
BOOK 3y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~276 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Films 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Bemis North America - Appleton averages 0.6 TCR (19% of the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Bemis North America - Appleton TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2017=0.3 · 2018=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Bemis North America - Appleton falls in its industry

396 Film, plastics, packaging, man establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 50 Film, plastics, packaging, man employers in Wisconsin.

Bemis North America - Appleton (276 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Bemis North America - Appleton has more employees than the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2018	1.2	0.8	3
2017	0.3	0.3	1
2016	0.3	0.3	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326112 · WI · Appleton

396 Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Films 2	LEXINGTON, OH	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	VILLA RICA CSB (4)	VILLA RICA, GA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bemis North America - New London	NEW LONDON, WI	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	TC Transcontinental Spartanburg	SPARTANBURG, SC	0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Andersen Menomonie Inc.	MENOMONIE	276 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Shine Technologies	JANESVILLE	276 FTE
STATE-SIZE	amcor Healthcare Oshkosh	OSKOSH	276 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cardinal CG -Spring Green CG	SPRING GREEN	276 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ThedaCare Regional Medical Center Appleton	Appleton	1,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton	Appleton	1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northern Operations	Appleton	1,321 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fox Valley Technical College (WI)	Appleton	1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR	Florida Public Utilities - Ecoplex	West Palm Beach, FL	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lifsey Building	Nashville, TN	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lametti and Sons Inc.	Hugo, MN	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sales - Avenue Plaza	New Orleans, LA	0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Firestone Polymers Lake Charles Plant	Sulphur, LA	276 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Linwood FBG	Lexington, NC	276 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hood Industries Inc. Wiggins	Wiggins, MS	276 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sacramento MLS	Sacramento, CA	276 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, 2016. 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.