Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing · Massachusetts

BWAY Corporation

Name: BWAY Corporation Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Leominster, MA · ~86 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

BWAY Corporation runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

BWAY Corporation: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BWAY Corporation safety composite

BWAY Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

BWAY Corporation held a steady TCR band

BWAY Corporation's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.2 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.2 · 2018=10.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Leominster, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

DART 2.9 DART
RANK #7/8
PHOTO Memphis Plant
BOOK 4y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Memphis Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows BWAY Corporation averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

BWAY Corporation TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=10.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where BWAY Corporation falls in its industry

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manu establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Natural nonfood coloring, manu employers in Massachusetts.

BWAY Corporation (86 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

BWAY Corporation has more employees than the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2020	2.9	2.9	3	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0
2018	10.6	3.9	4	7
2017	3.2	1.1	2	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · MA · Leominster

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 107 employers in Leominster, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Memphis Plant	MEMPHIS, TN	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Air Liquide Advanced Materials - PA2	MOUNT BETHEL, PA	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fedchem Bethlehem	BETHLEHEM, PA	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	allnex USA Inc.	KALAMAZOO, MI	4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	871-NiSource-Springfield MA-Cust Op Ctr	SPRINGFIELD	86 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RRSC Boston	STOUGHTON	86 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Milltown Plumbing & Heating, Inc.	CHELMSFORD	86 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Spence & Company	BROCKTON	86 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital	Leominster	976 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Affordable Interior Systems INC.	Leominster	730 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Market Basket #16	Leominster	433 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 2964	Leominster	333 FTE
NAT-TCR	Spancrete - WBC	Valders, WI	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Roofing Services Unlimited	Newton, KS	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Emergency Shelter	Cleveland, OH	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tonnard Mfg Corp	Corry, PA	4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Continental Structural Plastics, Van Wert, Ohio	Van Wert, OH	86 FTE
NAT-SIZE	S&S Concrete Floors, Inc	New Ipswich, NH	86 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Highland Park Market of Suffield, LLC	Suffield, CT	86 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Plouse Precision Manufacturing	Highspire, PA	86 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.