Aluminum cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing · North Carolina

Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem

Winston-Salem, NC · ~234 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem: 5.1 TCR = 153% of Aluminum cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem safety composite

Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem: 4.5 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2019

Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem's TCR rose 3.1 from 4.5 in 2016 to 7.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332431 · Winston-Salem, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 153% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO 010LNC-010-JLCLARK -…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 010LNC-010-JLCLARK - LANCASTER (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem averages 5.1 TCR (153% of the Aluminum cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2018=3 · 2019=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem falls in its industry

217 Aluminum cans, light gauge met establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Aluminum cans, light gauge met employers in North Carolina.

Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem (234 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem
Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem (234 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem has more employees than the Aluminum cans, light gauge metal, manufa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2019 7.6 1.1 8 12 0
2018 3.0 1.5 8 0 0
2016 4.5 1.9 8 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332431 · NC · Winston-Salem

217 Aluminum cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 234 employers in Winston-Salem, NC · 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 010LNC-010-JLCLARK - LANCASTER 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Justrite Manufacturing 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ball Tinplate 031 Warner Canton 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardagh Metal Beverage-Olive Branch 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highland Paving CO LLC 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Infrastructure Group, Inc 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gildan Yarns, LLC (Plant # 74) 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albemarle U.S. Inc 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center 4,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Budd Group Janitorial 4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds American Inc. Trade Marketing Services 2,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds Marketing Services Company 1,600 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0016 0061 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR International Wire - Bremen Indiana Operations 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JR & Co., Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 1428 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Lakes Brewing Company 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 84 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilltop Health Services Corporation 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6836-LIT 234 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: 2019, 2018, 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.