Soda fountain cooling and dispensing equipment manufacturing · Wisconsin

Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2

Appleton, WI · ~175 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2 runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Soda fountain cooling and dispensing equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2: 2.4 TCR = 74% of Soda fountain cooling and dispensing equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2 safety composite

Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2: 1.9 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2021

Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.9 in 2020 to 3.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333415 · Appleton, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 74% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #10/27
  • PHOTO ClimaCool Corp
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ClimaCool Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2 averages 2.4 TCR (74% of the Soda fountain cooling and dispensing equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2 TCR series: 2020=1.9 · 2021=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2 falls in its industry

461 Soda fountain cooling and disp establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #10 safest of 27 Soda fountain cooling and disp employers in Wisconsin.

Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2 (175 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2
Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2 (175 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Plexus Manufacturing-Appleton 2 has more employees than the Soda fountain cooling and dispensing equ 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
2021 3.0 3.0 5 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333415 · WI · Appleton

461 Soda fountain cooling and dispensing 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 ClimaCool Corp 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTEK OKARCHE 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RectorSeal Fall River 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoshizaki America, Inc GFN Facility 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE North 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evco Plastics - DEF 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winsert, LLC. 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fluid Connectors : Chetek 175 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 Pallet Consultants of NC Dunn 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DUWA 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Crown Technology, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountain Cascade, Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mexia Prinicipal Healthcare United Partnership 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarter 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE IND - Ground Ops 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Embraer Engineering Technology Center USA 175 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: 2021, 2020. 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.