Bottles, plastics, manufacturing · North Carolina

CKS Packaging

Haw River, NC · ~150 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CKS Packaging runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bottles, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

CKS Packaging: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CKS Packaging safety composite

CKS Packaging scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

CKS Packaging: 2.9 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2017

CKS Packaging's TCR rose 1.9 from 2.9 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · Haw River, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #16/18
  • PHOTO Altium Packaging - M…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Altium Packaging - Mt Airy (0.0 TCR gap)

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CKS Packaging in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CKS Packaging averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

CKS Packaging TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where CKS Packaging falls in its industry

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 18 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi employers in North Carolina.

CKS Packaging (150 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 CKS Packaging
CKS Packaging (150 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

CKS Packaging has more employees than the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2017 4.8 4.8 7 0 0
2016 2.9 2.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · NC · Haw River

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 8 employers in Haw River, 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 Altium Packaging - Mt Airy 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SEC KM 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pretium Packaging - Manchester 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpha Packaging 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farming 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE E.J. Vick Farming Company, LLC 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corrchoice Concord 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nash 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR CKS Graham 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR 05 CKS Packaging Graham 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Contracting Inc. 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR DLT6 74 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Fairborn 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 96 Cannon Falls, MN - Production 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 107 FAMILY FARE -Wyoming MI FF LLC #38-2750461 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Lighting : Bucyrus, OH 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Legends - The Star 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Valley Hospital 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Odessa Center (Txode) 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale North Chandler 150 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: 2017, 2016. 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.