Pails, plastics, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Placon Madison

Madison, WI · ~464 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Placon Madison runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pails, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Placon Madison: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Pails, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Placon Madison safety composite

Placon Madison scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

Placon Madison: 1.2 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.19× in 2023

Placon Madison's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.2 in 2020 to 1.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Madison, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #17/166
  • PHOTO Jabil Packaging Solu…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~464 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jabil Packaging Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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Placon Madison in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Placon Madison averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Pails, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Placon Madison TCR series: 2020=1.2 · 2023=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Placon Madison falls in its industry

2,838 Pails, plastics, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 166 Pails, plastics, manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Placon Madison (464 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Placon Madison
Placon Madison (464 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Placon Madison has more employees than the Pails, plastics, manufacturing 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
2023 1.6 0.3 6 0 0
2020 1.2 0.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · WI · Madison

2,838 Pails, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 577 employers in Madison, 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 Jabil Packaging Solutions 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silver Line Building Products 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Food Packaging : MINERAL WELLS 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poly Processing Company, LLC Monroe 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vos Electric, Inc. 463 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aptar - Mukwonago 463 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monroe Truck Equipment 465 FTE
STATE-SIZE YY03 - GREEN BAY, WI 463 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital - Madison 2,401 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meriter Hospital 2,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR EatStreet 1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR TDS - Junction Road (All Employees) 1,302 FTE
NAT-TCR Conifer-CF 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LMI - Lenexa 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ORS Nasco/ Muskogee 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ace Electric Inc. - All Establishments 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE DC 41 - Hartford 464 FTE
NAT-SIZE Geo-Technology Associates, Inc. 464 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbia Mills 464 FTE
NAT-SIZE HHI CFC Kansas 464 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: 2023, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.