Plastic Bottle Manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Axium Bethlehem

Bethlehem, PA · ~48 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Axium Bethlehem runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Plastic Bottle Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Axium Bethlehem: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Plastic Bottle Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Axium Bethlehem safety composite

Axium Bethlehem scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Axium Bethlehem: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

Axium Bethlehem's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · Bethlehem, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #19/35
  • PHOTO CKS 350 PET
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CKS 350 PET (0.0 TCR gap)

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Axium Bethlehem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Axium Bethlehem averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Plastic Bottle Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Axium Bethlehem TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Axium Bethlehem falls in its industry

411 Plastic Bottle Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 35 Plastic Bottle Manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Axium Bethlehem (48 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 Axium Bethlehem
Axium Bethlehem (48 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Axium Bethlehem has fewer employees than the Plastic Bottle Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2024 2.9 1.4 2 0 0
2023 4.1 2.1 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · PA · Bethlehem

411 Plastic Bottle Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 358 employers in Bethlehem, PA · 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 CKS 350 PET 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Altium Packaging - Elizabeth 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alphapointe - Kansas City 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Altira, Inc. 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sylvan America, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Esbenshade North 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rolling Rock Building Stone, Inc. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Stores Building 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 5,338 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Physician's Group 3,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Muhlenberg 2,139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4087 2,105 FTE
NAT-TCR Louisville IGA #691 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 145-COTULLA 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cks 350 Pet 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Faucet 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Barnwell IGA #653 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 192 Tea 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elevated Construction Services 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&C Sand and Stone #415 48 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: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.