Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing · Illinois

Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South

Cary, IL · ~290 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South: 2.3 TCR = 68% of Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South safety composite

Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South held a steady TCR band

Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.2 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.2 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.7 · 2021=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Cary, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #66/175
  • PHOTO Ironwood Plastics
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~290 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ironwood Plastics (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South averages 2.3 TCR (68% 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

Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.7 · 2021=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South falls in its industry

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #66 safest of 175 Bottle caps and lids, plastics employers in Illinois.

Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South (290 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South
Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South (290 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Aptargroup, Inc. - Cary South 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
2021 3.1 3.1 11 0 0
2020 0.7 0.3 1 1 0
2019 0.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.5 2.7 9 0 0
2017 3.2 2.4 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IL · Cary

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 39 employers in Cary, IL · 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 Ironwood Plastics 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITW Appliance Components Des Plaines 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Suncast Corporation Main Plant 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PFI 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE MZI Group Inc. 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turano Knead Dough Baking Company 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chester Cake 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marmon 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Medical Sage Products 1,122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sage Products 906 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary School District 26 Transportation 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary South 272 FTE
NAT-TCR SJC-SPF 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Englands Stove Works Inc NP 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sylvin Technologies Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 384 - BPW Southbelt 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Swiss Krono SC, LLC 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boxes, Inc. - Bridgeton 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE GR Bristol Care Primary Group, PC 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE UT_Layton 290 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.