Printing, gravure (except books, grey goods) · Virginia

Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant

Chester, VA · ~125 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Printing, gravure (except books, grey goods) workplace, earning a grade A.

Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Printing, gravure (except books, grey goods) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant safety composite

Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant: 0.0 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2017

Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Chester, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #3/30
  • PHOTO Greeno Road
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greeno Road (0.0 TCR gap)

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Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Printing, gravure (except books, grey goods) BLS benchmark).

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

Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant falls in its industry

2,001 Printing, gravure (except book establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 30 Printing, gravure (except book employers in Virginia.

Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant (125 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant
Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant (125 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant has more employees than the Printing, gravure (except books, grey go median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2017 1.2 0.6 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · VA · Chester

2,001 Printing, gravure (except books, grey goods) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 119 employers in Chester, VA · 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 Greeno Road 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Credit Forms, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SATO America Charlotte 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Multi-Color Corporation - Scottsburg 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shoosmith Construction, Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE ST Tissue 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Virginia Poly Operations (VPO) 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Flooring 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : RIC2 3,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - RIC2 2,710 FTE
CITY-NEAR C.W. Wright Construction Company, LLC 697 FTE
CITY-NEAR CW Wright Construction 573 FTE
NAT-TCR 505 Nicollet MNN3 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Linden MNE1 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Celgene Corp. - Summit West 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McBee 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE TREC 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office NV - 002 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Abington, Ma 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6111 125 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.