Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing · North Carolina

Direct Pack East

Rockingham, NC · ~90 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Direct Pack East runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Direct Pack East: 7.8 TCR = 238% of Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Direct Pack East safety composite

Direct Pack East scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−11.2

2018→2024

Direct Pack East injury rate improved

Direct Pack East's TCR fell 11.2 from 17.1 in 2018 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 492.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=17.1 · 2019=492.6 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 238% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #124/132
  • PHOTO Plastic Products Co.…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plastic Products Co., Inc. - Greenville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Direct Pack East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Direct Pack East averages 7.8 TCR (238% of the Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Direct Pack East TCR series: 2018=17.1 · 2019=492.6 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Direct Pack East falls in its industry

2,838 Bowls and bowl covers, plastic establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #124 safest of 132 Bowls and bowl covers, plastic employers in North Carolina.

Direct Pack East (90 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Direct Pack East
Direct Pack East (90 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Direct Pack East has fewer employees than the Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufac 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
2024 6.0 6.0 6 0 0
2023 4.5 3.4 4 0 0
2022 4.8 3.0 8 0 0
2021 6.8 5.1 4 0 0
2019 492.6 140.8 7 0 0
2018 17.1 6.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · NC · Rockingham

2,838 Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 44 employers in Rockingham, 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 Plastic Products Co., Inc. - Greenville 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PALRAM AMERICAS-P2000 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Available Plastics, Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Production Facility 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allen Steam Station 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fayetteville Resource Center - PNG 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Raleigh 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJR Group Inc. 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockingham Plant 1,066 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richmond Memorial Hospital 466 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1010 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1010 328 FTE
NAT-TCR M & M Woodworking inc 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FV St Johns Hospital 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nelson Wood Shims 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Crossroads Care Center of Fond du Lac 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE HILLSBORO 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Techni-Cast Corporation 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Richland 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plascon Inc. 90 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.