Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Texas

BWAY Garland

Garland, TX · ~59 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BWAY Garland runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

BWAY Garland: 2.3 TCR = 71% of Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BWAY Garland safety composite

BWAY Garland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

BWAY Garland: 2.2 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.08× in 2024

BWAY Garland's TCR rose 2.7 from 2.2 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332431 · Garland, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Ardagh Metal Packagi…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ardagh Metal Packaging - Valparaiso (0.0 TCR gap)

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BWAY Garland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BWAY Garland averages 2.3 TCR (71% 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

BWAY Garland TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2019=1.9 · 2021=1.4 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where BWAY Garland falls in its industry

217 Steel cans, light gauge metal, establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Steel cans, light gauge metal, employers in Texas.

BWAY Garland (59 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 BWAY Garland
BWAY Garland (59 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4

BWAY Garland has fewer employees than the Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufactu median and a lower 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
2024 4.9 4.9 4 0 0
2023 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332431 · TX · Garland

217 Steel cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 316 employers in Garland, TX · 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 Ardagh Metal Packaging - Valparaiso 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Envases Commerce, LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC - Olympia Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Mill Park Plant 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Omega Protein INC. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Plainview SPSC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beckville Mine 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG - T.H. Wharton 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DDA2 1,704 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz Comany Garland 1,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz 1,370 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osburn Contractors 933 FTE
NAT-TCR Volume Transportation Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Salisbury Operations Center 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR US Magnesium LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lafayette College 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Apache Pipelines 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Transport - 328 328SH 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kannapolis 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 423 59 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: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2019, 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.