Food storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing · Iowa

Berry Plastics

Des Moines, IA · ~45 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berry Plastics runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Food storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Berry Plastics: 1.4 TCR = 43% of Food storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berry Plastics safety composite

Berry Plastics scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−2.0

2016→2018

Berry Plastics injury rate improved

Berry Plastics's TCR fell 2.0 from 2.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.0 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326111 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 43% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO West Bag Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Bag Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berry Plastics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berry Plastics averages 1.4 TCR (43% of the Food storage 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 Plastics TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Berry Plastics falls in its industry

322 Food storage bags, plastics fi establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #1 safest of 8 Food storage bags, plastics fi employers in Iowa.

Berry Plastics (45 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 Plastics
Berry Plastics (45 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Berry Plastics has fewer employees than the Food storage bags, plastics film, single median and a lower 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326111 · IA · Des Moines

322 Food storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, 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 West Bag Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Source One Packaging LLC Main Location 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR StarPak LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polytex Fibers LLC 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bushel Boy - Mason City 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amana Farms, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Opal Foods Hampton 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Davenport Service Center 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #100 (Neenah, WI) 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Department of Social Services - High Point 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Scottsdale Villa Mirage 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kauffman Engineering, Inc. BRE 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE EnerSys Tubing Plant 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE MI Metals, Inc. (Prescott Valley) 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACME Equipment 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE 51-Rochester Terminal 45 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.