Pulp products, molded, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Progressive Converting Appleton

Appleton, WI · ~176 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Progressive Converting Appleton runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pulp products, molded, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Progressive Converting Appleton: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Pulp products, molded, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Progressive Converting Appleton safety composite

Progressive Converting Appleton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Progressive Converting Appleton: 0.5 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2023

Progressive Converting Appleton's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.5 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.88× 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 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #2/25
  • PHOTO 1660 Kenneth Drive
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~176 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1660 Kenneth Drive (0.0 TCR gap)

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Progressive Converting Appleton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Progressive Converting Appleton averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Pulp products, molded, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Progressive Converting Appleton TCR series: 2017=0.5 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Progressive Converting Appleton falls in its industry

236 Pulp products, molded, manufac establishments

Safer than 83% 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 #2 safest of 25 Pulp products, molded, manufac employers in Wisconsin.

Progressive Converting Appleton (176 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Progressive Converting Appleton
Progressive Converting Appleton (176 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Progressive Converting Appleton has more employees than the Pulp products, molded, manufacturing 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
2023 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2022 2.3 1.6 3 0 0
2021 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2020 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2019 1.5 1.5 3 0 0
2017 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322299 · WI · Appleton

236 Pulp products, molded, 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 1660 Kenneth Drive 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pregis Ever Tec - Reno 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cascades Moulded Pulp - Iowa 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Facet International 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bayland Buildings, Inc 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apache Stainless Equipment Corporation 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE APPLETON EAST WI - 3111 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4223-M1400 176 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 Land N' Sea - Norfolk 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Land N' Sea - Pompano Beach 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Aerospace Mfg Co/Natl Standard Bolt 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4386 LONG BEACH, CA 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Culpeper Baptist Retirement Community (dba The Culpeper) 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mahle Behr Dayton LLC 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dart Container Polymers 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Newtown 176 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.