Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) · Iowa

American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence

Story City, IA · ~283 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) workplace, earning a grade A.

American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence safety composite

American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence held a steady TCR band

American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.0 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.0 · 2017=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Story City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/29
  • PHOTO Keys Anderson
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~283 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Keys Anderson (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) BLS benchmark).

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

American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence falls in its industry

2,001 Print shops, flexographic (exc establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 29 Print shops, flexographic (exc employers in Iowa.

American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence (283 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence
American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence (283 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence has more employees than the Print shops, flexographic (except printi 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 0.9 0.0 3 0 0
2016 1.0 0.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · IA · Story City

2,001 Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 16 employers in Story City, 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 Keys Anderson 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelly Press, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veritas Document Solutions 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WI02 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH36 Shull 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Sabre FWT Sioux City Iowa 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oak Laminate 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1491 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Packaging Corporation 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bethany Manor, Inc 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bethany Life 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bathany Manor 248 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of New Madrid LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Solutions : IS - MFG US - Selmer, TN - Busway 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SMC Electric Joplin 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TRW Automotive-Marshall 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jay R. Smith Mfg. Co. 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Janesville Acoustics- Battle Creek 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Janesville Acoustics - Warrensburg 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland - CO 283 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.