Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing · Delaware

DuPont Pencader Plant

Newark, DE · ~124 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DuPont Pencader Plant runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

DuPont Pencader Plant: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DuPont Pencader Plant safety composite

DuPont Pencader Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

DuPont Pencader Plant: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

DuPont Pencader Plant's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326121 · Newark, DE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO W&W Fiberglass Tank Co
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: W&W Fiberglass Tank Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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DuPont Pencader Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DuPont Pencader Plant averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

DuPont Pencader Plant TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where DuPont Pencader Plant falls in its industry

202 Casings, sausage, nonrigid pla establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Delaware alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Casings, sausage, nonrigid pla employers in Delaware.

DuPont Pencader Plant (124 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate DuPont Pencader Plant
DuPont Pencader Plant (124 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 3.7

DuPont Pencader Plant has more employees than the Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, man median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326121 · DE · Newark

202 Casings, sausage, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 221 employers in Newark, DE · 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 W&W Fiberglass Tank Co 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zeus Sales/R&D/AMP Facility 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lyondellbasell 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engineered Materials : Elgin 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dagsboro 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Refrigeration Company 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delmarva Insulation 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5729 W Denneys Rd 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR 50 Christiana 11,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newark Site 1,462 FTE
CITY-NEAR DE00000042 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - NEWARK 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPont Electronic Materials 653 FTE
NAT-TCR FEI Company, Inc./EFA Products 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR One Point Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Home Supply 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dublin, OH 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Robertson Heating Supply Co. of Ohio 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Utslk - Salt Lake Airport 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Department of Development Services 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ny700 - Palisades 124 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. 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.