Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing · North Carolina

Berry Global - Matthews

Matthews, NC · ~297 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berry Global - Matthews runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Berry Global - Matthews: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berry Global - Matthews safety composite

Berry Global - Matthews scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Berry Global - Matthews: 2.2 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2019

Berry Global - Matthews's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.2 in 2018 to 3.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326111 · Matthews, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO Anchor Packaging Inc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~297 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anchor Packaging Inc. Jonesboro (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berry Global - Matthews in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berry Global - Matthews averages 3.0 TCR (90% 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 - Matthews TCR series: 2018=2.2 · 2019=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Berry Global - Matthews falls in its industry

322 Bags, plastics film, single wa establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Bags, plastics film, single wa employers in North Carolina.

Berry Global - Matthews (297 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 - Matthews
Berry Global - Matthews (297 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Berry Global - Matthews has more 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
2019 3.8 1.6 12 0 0
2018 2.2 0.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326111 · NC · Matthews

322 Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 94 employers in Matthews, 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 Anchor Packaging Inc. Jonesboro 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pitt Plastics Columbus 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laddawn, Inc. Dallas, TX 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Bag - Roanoke 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bakkavor USA 297 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITG Richmond 297 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ardagh Glass Inc Henderson 297 FTE
STATE-SIZE HAECO Cabin Solutions - PTP 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Matthews Medical Center 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-06000 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC201 DC201 MATTHEWS NC 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC201 353 FTE
NAT-TCR Nichols St. ICF 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Orono Family Medicine 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cst Cle 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BCF 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE ASP Staff 297 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermotron Industries 297 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tampa Customer Development Center 297 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solo Cup Company Ada 297 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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