Paper making machinery repair and maintenance services · Wisconsin

Skilltech

Appleton, WI · ~132 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Skilltech runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper making machinery repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Skilltech: 3.3 TCR = 155% of Paper making machinery repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Skilltech safety composite

Skilltech scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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)
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2018→2021

Skilltech injury rate improved

Skilltech's TCR fell 1.8 from 5.0 in 2018 to 3.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.0 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Appleton, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.3 · 155% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #43/87
  • PHOTO Missoula
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Missoula (0.0 TCR gap)

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Skilltech in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Skilltech averages 3.3 TCR (155% of the Paper making machinery repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Skilltech TCR series: 2018=5 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=3.3 · BLS 2.1

Where Skilltech falls in its industry

2,560 Paper making machinery repair establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 87 Paper making machinery repair employers in Wisconsin.

Skilltech (132 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Skilltech
Skilltech (132 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Skilltech has more employees than the Paper making machinery repair and mainte median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 3.3 1.6 4 0 0
2020 2.3 0.8 2 1 0
2019 2.3 0.8 3 0 0
2018 5.0 1.4 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · WI · Appleton

2,560 Paper making machinery repair and maintenance services 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 Missoula 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wyler Industrial Works, Inc 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenway Equipment Jonesboro 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Maintenance Services 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ABS IntelliGen 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE RHD Plumbing, Inc 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Milwaukee 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE SFC Gillett 333 132 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 Awg - Nashville 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ESS 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR KC Precision 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Strack and Van Til Corporate Office 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE CPC 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE DNA 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Epoxy : Deer Park 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pike Lumber Company- Akron 132 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, 2019, 2018. 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.