Arc welding equipment manufacturing · Wisconsin

Power Systems Division - South

Appleton, WI · ~126 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Power Systems Division - South runs at 234% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Arc welding equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Power Systems Division - South: 7.7 TCR = 234% of Arc welding equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Power Systems Division - South safety composite

Power Systems Division - South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Power Systems Division - South: 5.0 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2019

Power Systems Division - South's TCR rose 7.0 from 5.0 in 2016 to 12.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.09× 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 7.7 · 234% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #14/15
  • PHOTO Consumer Solutions D…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Consumer Solutions Division - West (0.1 TCR gap)

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Power Systems Division - South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Power Systems Division - South averages 7.7 TCR (234% 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

Power Systems Division - South TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=12 · BLS 3.3

Where Power Systems Division - South 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 #14 safest of 15 Arc welding equipment manufact employers in Wisconsin.

Power Systems Division - South (126 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Power Systems Division - South
Power Systems Division - South (126 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Power Systems Division - South 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
2019 12.0 8.4 10 10 0
2018 7.6 6.8 3 7 0
2017 6.2 4.2 4 2 0
2016 5.0 5.0 2 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 Consumer Solutions Division - West 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Power Systems Division - West 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weld Mold Company 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oliver Technologies Inc. 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waunakee Remodeling 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE EDGERTON CONTRACTORS, INC 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ocean Spray Tomah Processing Plant 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dean WI - De Pere 126 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 City of Oak Forest - Fire 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Finley 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Delta Lga - C Club 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR La Hacienda Healthcare 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rio Grande Nursing and Rehabilitation 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Manhattan 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ameri-Kart Corp. 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seneca Foods Princeville 126 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: 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.