Die-cut paper products (except for office use) made from purchased paper or paperboard · Wisconsin

Laminations Central

Appleton, WI · ~108 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Laminations Central runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Die-cut paper products (except for office use) made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Laminations Central: 1.6 TCR = 49% of Die-cut paper products (except for office use) made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Laminations Central safety composite

Laminations Central scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Laminations Central: 1.1 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2024

Laminations Central's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.1 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322299 · Appleton, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 49% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #6/25
  • PHOTO DFC Manufacturing Gr…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFC Manufacturing Group LLC dba Larkin Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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Laminations Central in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Laminations Central averages 1.6 TCR (49% of the Die-cut paper products (except for office use) made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Laminations Central TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=2 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=1 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Laminations Central falls in its industry

236 Die-cut paper products (except establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 25 Die-cut paper products (except employers in Wisconsin.

Laminations Central (108 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Laminations Central
Laminations Central (108 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Laminations Central has more employees than the Die-cut paper products (except for offic median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.5 1.7 3 0 0
2023 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.7 2.7 3 0 0
2020 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2019 2.7 0.9 3 0 0
2018 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2017 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2016 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322299 · WI · Appleton

236 Die-cut paper products (except for office use) made from purchased paper or paperboard 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 DFC Manufacturing Group LLC dba Larkin Industries 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Progressive Converting Little Chute 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norka Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport - Tubes & Cores - C324 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wiese Brothers Farms 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pagel's Ponderosa Dairy LLC 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraemer North America - All Other WI 108 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 Searcy 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Tx Sc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Construction Services 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GADC 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Redner's Warehouse Market Camden 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office of Policy and Management - Capitol Avenue 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allens Health Center 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harvard Maintenance LLC of Massachusetts 108 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, 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.