Bottles, plastics, manufacturing · Iowa

Amcor Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~140 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Amcor Des Moines runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bottles, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Amcor Des Moines: 2.8 TCR = 86% of Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Amcor Des Moines safety composite

Amcor Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Amcor Des Moines held a steady TCR band

Amcor Des Moines's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.7 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.7 · 2020=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 86% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Western Container Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Western Container Corporation - Fife (0.0 TCR gap)

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Amcor Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Amcor Des Moines averages 2.8 TCR (86% of the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Amcor Des Moines TCR series: 2019=2.7 · 2020=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Amcor Des Moines falls in its industry

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi employers in Iowa.

Amcor Des Moines (140 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 Amcor Des Moines
Amcor Des Moines (140 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Amcor Des Moines has more employees than the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2020 3.0 1.5 0 2 0
2019 2.7 2.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · IA · Des Moines

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, IA · 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 Western Container Corporation - Fife 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpla Caribe 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richards Packaging, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Racine 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oakville 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Complex 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmer Candy Company - Bluff 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hahn Ready Mix 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Best Western Plus 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairview Community Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer 164 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Corning Manufacturing Support 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orora Visual New Jersey 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town & Country Nursing Center LLC 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mrs. Grissom's Salads, Inc. 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Strongwell_Chatfield 140 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: 2020, 2019. 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.