Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Ohio

Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH

Columbus, OH · ~241 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH safety composite

Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2019→2021

Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH injury rate improved

Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH's TCR fell 1.2 from 3.4 in 2019 to 2.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.4 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332431 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #16/24
  • PHOTO Ball Beverage Pkg 15…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~241 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ball Beverage Pkg 157 Tampa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH TCR series: 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH falls in its industry

217 Steel cans, light gauge metal, establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 24 Steel cans, light gauge metal, employers in Ohio.

Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH (241 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH
Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH (241 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH has more employees than the Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufactu 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
2021 2.2 1.3 5 2 0
2020 3.6 2.9 10 0 0
2019 3.4 1.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332431 · OH · Columbus

217 Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 Ball Beverage Pkg 157 Tampa 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardagh Metal Beverage-Chicago 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ball Tinplate 023-Springdale 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Sonoco Metal Packing - D143 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rudolph Libbe Inc. 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio State Waterproofing 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rohrer Corporation - Wadsworth 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middlefield 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR VIP Plastics 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR construction 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR US024: Chino 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR GreenField Manor, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Customized - MD - 0806 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE UMC, Inc - Idaho 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty Commons 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pleasant View Home 241 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.