Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing · Alabama

960 West Veterans

Auburn, AL · ~245 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

960 West Veterans runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

960 West Veterans: 1.6 TCR = 49% of Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

960 West Veterans safety composite

960 West Veterans scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2023→2024

960 West Veterans injury rate improved

960 West Veterans's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.9 in 2023 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.9 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Auburn, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 49% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #9/65
  • PHOTO Stryten Energy
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~245 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stryten Energy (0.0 TCR gap)

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960 West Veterans in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 960 West Veterans averages 1.6 TCR (49% of the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

960 West Veterans TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where 960 West Veterans falls in its industry

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 65 Bottle caps and lids, plastics employers in Alabama.

960 West Veterans (245 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 960 West Veterans
960 West Veterans (245 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

960 West Veterans has more employees than the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.4 0.5 3 0 0
2023 1.9 1.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · AL · Auburn

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 113 employers in Auburn, AL · 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 Stryten Energy 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conwed Plastics 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highland Packaging Solutions 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMS Gear Braking Systems, LLC 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alabama Catfish LLC 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clayton Addison 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARD MBUSI Plant 1 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6173 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Briggs & Stratton 602 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4021-000017263 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR 000017263 AUBURN UNIVERSITY DINING 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 356 344 FTE
NAT-TCR Ecolab Engineering Center 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Munters Corporation 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Campany Roof Maintenance Roofing Division LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Interface, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Building 4 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riviana Foods Inc 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brethren Hillcrest Homes 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wabash Fond du Lac 245 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.