Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing · Iowa

Berry Global

Manchester, IA · ~72 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berry Global runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Berry Global: 4.3 TCR = 131% of Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berry Global safety composite

Berry Global scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−3.0

2022→2023

Berry Global injury rate improved

Berry Global's TCR fell 3.0 from 5.8 in 2022 to 2.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.8 · 2023=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326111 · Manchester, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Heritage Bag - Ogden
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heritage Bag - Ogden (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berry Global in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berry Global averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Berry Global TCR series: 2022=5.8 · 2023=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Berry Global falls in its industry

322 Bags, plastics film, single wa establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Bags, plastics film, single wa employers in Iowa.

Berry Global (72 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Berry Global
Berry Global (72 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Berry Global has fewer employees than the Bags, plastics film, single wall or mult median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2023 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2022 5.8 4.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326111 · IA · Manchester

322 Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 24 employers in Manchester, IA · 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 Heritage Bag - Ogden 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CDF Corporation 57 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Package Concepts & Materials, 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maco Bag Corporation 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Two Rivers Gas 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Denco Highway Construction Corporation 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forrest & Associate, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE CKF Des Moines 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regional Medical Center 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryten Manchester LLC 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henderson Products 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manufacturing 264 FTE
NAT-TCR Olon Industries 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Surprise AZ Truss (Peoria) 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mies & Sons - Colwich 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Transportation 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE SSA Pacific Stockton 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE McMinnville Manufacturing, LLC 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Landing of Brighton 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trego/Dugan Aviation Inc Fll 72 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: 2023, 2022. 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.