Bottles, plastics, manufacturing · North Carolina

Corning Life Sciences - Durham

Durham, NC · ~410 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Corning Life Sciences - Durham runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bottles, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Corning Life Sciences - Durham: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Corning Life Sciences - Durham safety composite

Corning Life Sciences - Durham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−0.8

2018→2022

Corning Life Sciences - Durham injury rate improved

Corning Life Sciences - Durham's TCR fell 0.8 from 3.1 in 2018 to 2.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.1 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO Plastipak- Modesto
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~410 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plastipak- Modesto (0.0 TCR gap)

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Corning Life Sciences - Durham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Corning Life Sciences - Durham averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Corning Life Sciences - Durham TCR series: 2018=3.1 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Corning Life Sciences - Durham falls in its industry

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #7 safest of 18 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi employers in North Carolina.

Corning Life Sciences - Durham (410 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Corning Life Sciences - Durham
Corning Life Sciences - Durham (410 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Corning Life Sciences - Durham 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
2022 2.2 2.0 16 0 0
2021 2.1 2.0 12 1 0
2020 0.6 0.4 3 0 0
2019 2.9 2.9 11 1 0
2018 3.1 1.7 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · NC · Durham

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, 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 Plastipak- Modesto 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 13 - Charleston 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amcor Rigid Packaging 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoschton 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Compression Technologies and Services : MFG-Mocksville, NC-USA 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nutanix-Durham NC 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI Security Charlotte Division 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin Lakes Community 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR UGI Utilities Lancaster 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Halco 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1030 - Bryant 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1013 - Cape Coral 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kimball International Headquarters 410 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson Therapy Partners, LLC. 410 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accupac, Inc 410 FTE
NAT-SIZE LT 410 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.