Arc welding equipment manufacturing · Wisconsin

Consumer Solutions Division - West

Appleton, WI · ~137 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Consumer Solutions Division - West runs at 231% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Arc welding equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Consumer Solutions Division - West: 7.6 TCR = 231% of Arc welding equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Consumer Solutions Division - West safety composite

Consumer Solutions Division - West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Consumer Solutions Division - West: 3.6 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2018

Consumer Solutions Division - West's TCR rose 8.5 from 3.6 in 2016 to 12.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Appleton, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 231% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO Power Systems Divisi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Power Systems Division - South (0.1 TCR gap)

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Consumer Solutions Division - West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Consumer Solutions Division - West averages 7.6 TCR (231% of the Arc welding equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Consumer Solutions Division - West TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=12.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Consumer Solutions Division - West falls in its industry

129 Arc welding equipment manufact establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #13 safest of 15 Arc welding equipment manufact employers in Wisconsin.

Consumer Solutions Division - West (137 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Consumer Solutions Division - West
Consumer Solutions Division - West (137 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Consumer Solutions Division - West has more employees than the Arc welding equipment manufacturing median and a higher 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
2018 12.1 6.4 7 10 0
2017 7.2 4.6 5 6 0
2016 3.6 1.8 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · WI · Appleton

129 Arc welding equipment 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Power Systems Division - South 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Power Systems Division - West 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weld Mold Company 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Purity - Elkhart 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poblocki Paving Corp. 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seneca Foods Corporation - Cambria East 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meister Cheese Company LLC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Germantown Container 137 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 4795-PD-AGS-AUGUSTA-PD 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Newton Public Schools 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Progressive Building Systems 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn Portland 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carter Nursing and Rehab 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE GeoCare, Inc. DBA Home Instead Senior Care 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Genesis Medical Center DeWitt 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main 137 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.