Welding equipment manufacturing · Wisconsin

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton

Appleton, WI · ~128 workers · 6 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

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Welding equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton: 1.4 TCR = 44% of Welding equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton safety composite

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton held a steady TCR band

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.8 in 2019 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Appleton, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 44% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #1/15
  • PHOTO Select-Arc Troy
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Select-Arc Troy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton averages 1.4 TCR (44% of the Welding equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton TCR series: 2019=1.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton falls in its industry

129 Welding equipment manufacturin establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #1 safest of 15 Welding equipment manufacturin employers in Wisconsin.

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton (128 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton
Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton (128 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Appleton has more employees than the Welding equipment manufacturing 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
2024 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.4 1.4 4 2 0
2021 0.8 0.8 0 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · WI · Appleton

129 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 Select-Arc Troy 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DUKANE IAS, LLC. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arc Products, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln Electric Automation Chattanooga 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. G. Huston Co., Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holtger Bros., Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction Resources Management, Inc. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE AW Oakes & Son, Inc. 128 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 New Mexico State University 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Assembly Facility 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Winston Steel, LLC - Junia Location 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanofi Taylor Distribution 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Convent Plant 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fisher Dynamics - Troy 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Illinois - Salem 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlisle Karns Food Store 128 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.