Cans, aluminum, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Minnesota

Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant

Owatonna, MN · ~115 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cans, aluminum, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Cans, aluminum, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant safety composite

Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant: 0.8 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2024

Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.8 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332431 · Owatonna, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Silgan Containers Pl…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Silgan Containers Plover (0.0 TCR gap)

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Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Cans, aluminum, 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 USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=3 · 2020=3 · 2021=0 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant falls in its industry

217 Cans, aluminum, light gauge me establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Cans, aluminum, light gauge me employers in Minnesota.

Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant (115 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant
Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant (115 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant has fewer employees than the Cans, aluminum, light gauge metal, manuf 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 2.5 0.6 3 1 0
2023 2.8 1.1 5 0 0
2022 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.0 1.5 4 0 0
2019 3.0 0.7 4 0 0
2018 1.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332431 · MN · Owatonna

217 Cans, aluminum, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, MN · 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 Silgan Containers Plover 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silgan Containers Rochelle 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rocky Mountain Metal Containers-Cans 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE NEW LOOK CONTRACTING, INC 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norminn All 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Packaging - Brooklyn Park, MN 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR Decorah Human Services 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 220-Washington DC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Westfield-77 Mill Street 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Plastocon, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Irvine Sewing 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE JRNRC Ops, Inc. dba James River Nursing and Rehabilitation 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Core Carrier Corporation 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE WNDOB Windsor Office Building 115 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.