Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing · New York

Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants

Nichols, NY · ~254 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants safety composite

Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−3.4

2020→2024

Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants injury rate improved

Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants's TCR fell 3.4 from 4.3 in 2020 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.3 · 2021=2.0 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332431 · Nichols, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Crown Beverage Packa…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~254 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC - Olympia Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants TCR series: 2020=4.3 · 2021=2 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants falls in its industry

217 Beer cans, light gauge metal, establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Beer cans, light gauge metal, employers in New York.

Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants (254 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants
Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants (254 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Crown Cork & Seal - Nichols Plants has more employees than the Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufactur median and a higher 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 0.8 0.3 3 0 0
2023 2.1 2.1 7 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 8 0 0
2021 2.0 1.0 6 0 0
2020 4.3 0.4 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332431 · NY · Nichols

217 Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 8 employers in Nichols, NY · 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 Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC - Olympia Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BWAY Garland 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardagh Metal Packaging - Valparaiso 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Envases Commerce, LLC 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Albany Campus 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flower City Packaging 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anchor Glass Container 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precipart 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tioga Downs Racetrack LLC 562 FTE
CITY-NEAR 982781 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tioga Downs 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Racing & Entertainment, LLC. 47 FTE
NAT-TCR CECO Concrete Construction : Tampa 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Twinsburg Medical Office 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Knauf Insulation Plant 12 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1030 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Raymond - Southern California, Inc. 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Country Club 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0631 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1239 254 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.