Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing · North Carolina

Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services

Lexington, NC · ~73 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services safety composite

Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−7.5

2016→2019

Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services injury rate improved

Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services's TCR fell 7.5 from 7.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.5 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Lexington, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #82/132
  • PHOTO South Deerfield Faci…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Deerfield Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services falls in its industry

2,838 Drums, plastics (i.e., contain establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 132 Drums, plastics (i.e., contain employers in North Carolina.

Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services (73 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services
Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services (73 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cardinal/Schuetz Container Services has fewer employees than the Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 Fatalities
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.5 4.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · NC · Lexington

2,838 Drums, plastics (i.e., containers), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 120 employers in Lexington, 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 South Deerfield Facility 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Surteco 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR M R Products, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carfair Composites USA 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Turf of NC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE REC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haywood EMC-Combined Districts 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Utilities 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Schools 3,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Government 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Windows & Door 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASCO Power Technologies 639 FTE
NAT-TCR 6962-Abs 0028 0142 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 1462 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0020 3563 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0017 1988 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE CECO Concrete : Hartford 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Abs 0028 0750 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Abs 0028 0708 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Abs 0028 0524 73 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.