Balloons, plastics, manufacturing · Ohio

Encore Plastics Inc.

Cambridge, OH · ~174 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Encore Plastics Inc. runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Balloons, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Encore Plastics Inc.: 5.8 TCR = 175% of Balloons, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Encore Plastics Inc. safety composite

Encore Plastics Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 41% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

Encore Plastics Inc.: 4.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2021

Encore Plastics Inc.'s TCR rose 0.5 from 4.0 in 2018 to 4.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Cambridge, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 175% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #215/270
  • PHOTO Viking Pools - IA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Viking Pools - IA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Encore Plastics Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Encore Plastics Inc. averages 5.8 TCR (175% of the Balloons, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Encore Plastics Inc. TCR series: 2018=4 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Encore Plastics Inc. falls in its industry

2,838 Balloons, plastics, manufactur establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #215 safest of 270 Balloons, plastics, manufactur employers in Ohio.

Encore Plastics Inc. (174 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Encore Plastics Inc.
Encore Plastics Inc. (174 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Encore Plastics Inc. has more employees than the Balloons, plastics, manufacturing 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
2021 4.5 2.3 6 0 1
2020 8.8 6.9 13 1 0
2018 4.0 2.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · OH · Cambridge

2,838 Balloons, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 73 employers in Cambridge, OH · 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 Viking Pools - IA 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meese - Madison 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom-Pak Group A/Group B/PDC/Corp 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cambro Manufacturing 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy - Martins Ferry 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martel Bakery Mix, LLC 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allen Division 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Akers Packaging Middletown 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center. 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3816-SI3778 694 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3262 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quanex IG Systems Cambridge 351 FTE
NAT-TCR Indiana University Health Bloomington, Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Franciscan Villa 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Joseph's Hospital 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 471 Northridge Fashion Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Metro Nash Emergency Communications Dept. 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Villa Financial Services 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Missouri - 1002 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE JAX 174 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: 2021, 2020, 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.