Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Connecticut

American Plastic Products, Inc._

Waterbury, CT · ~44 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Plastic Products, Inc._ runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

American Plastic Products, Inc._: 8.0 TCR = 243% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Plastic Products, Inc._ safety composite

American Plastic Products, Inc._ scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

American Plastic Products, Inc._: 3.6 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 19.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2022

American Plastic Products, Inc._'s TCR rose 2.2 from 3.6 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Waterbury, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 243% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #28/33
  • PHOTO Core Molding Technol…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Core Molding Technologies (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Plastic Products, Inc._ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Plastic Products, Inc._ averages 8.0 TCR (243% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Plastic Products, Inc._ TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=9.7 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=19.4 · 2022=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where American Plastic Products, Inc._ falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 33 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in Connecticut.

American Plastic Products, Inc._ (44 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 American Plastic Products, Inc._
American Plastic Products, Inc._ (44 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

American Plastic Products, Inc._ has fewer employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m median and a higher 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
2022 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2021 19.4 13.9 7 0 0
2020 5.7 5.7 2 0 0
2019 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2018 9.1 6.8 4 0 0
2017 9.7 9.7 4 0 0
2016 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · CT · Waterbury

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 218 employers in Waterbury, CT · 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 Core Molding Technologies 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6565-Custom Pultrusions-Main 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hayward Industries 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toter - Salt Lake City 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Water Division 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Pipe Services- CT 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE FOLEY'S PUMP SERVICE 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weatherproof and New England Smart Energy 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Mary's Hospital 1,654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterbury Hospital 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartford-Saint Mary's Hospital 1,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Naugatuck Valley Community College 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR Seafood City Supermarket - Milpitas 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Monterey RotoCo Inc 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Quad Cities Branch 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 9273-FDS 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walters Produce Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office Interiors of Virginia, Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Health Care 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE NexGen Power Systems 44 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.