Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing · Virginia

Essel Propack America, LLC

Name: Essel Propack America, LLC Workplace Safety Data
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Danville, VA · ~280 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Essel Propack America, LLC runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Essel Propack America, LLC: 2.3 TCR = 70% of Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essel Propack America, LLC safety composite

Essel Propack America, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% 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).

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.73 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

Essel Propack America, LLC: 2.1 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2019

Essel Propack America, LLC's TCR rose 0.5 from 2.1 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326112 · Danville, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 70% of ind

DART 0.7 DART
RANK #6/12
PHOTO Sealed Air Corporation
BOOK 2y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sealed Air Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Essel Propack America, LLC averages 2.3 TCR (70% of the Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Essel Propack America, LLC TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2019=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Essel Propack America, LLC falls in its industry

396 Flexible packaging, plastics f establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Flexible packaging, plastics f employers in Virginia.

Essel Propack America, LLC (280 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Essel Propack America, LLC has more employees than the Flexible packaging, plastics film, 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
2019	2.5	0.7	6	1	0
2018	2.1	1.2	5	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326112 · VA · Danville

396 Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 102 employers in Danville, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Sealed Air Corporation	HIGH POINT, NC	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Printing	NASHVILLE, TN	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tekni Plex Madison	MADISON, WI	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AmTopp - Lolita	LOLITA, TX	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Amherst	AMHERST	280 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 2705	FRANKLIN	280 FTE
STATE-SIZE	4638	RUCKERSVILLE	280 FTE
STATE-SIZE	0239 - WINCHESTER VA WHSE	WINCHESTER	280 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Goodyear Danville	Danville	2,054 FTE
CITY-NEAR	A408797	Danville	2,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sovah Health Danville	Danville	1,145 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Caesars Virginia	Danville	852 FTE
NAT-TCR	Division 13	Oakland, NJ	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Yarde Metals, Inc.: Connecticut	Southington, CT	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mechanical Incorporated	Freeport, IL	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Atlanta Paving & Concrete Construction	Norcross, GA	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Tracker Marine-Clinton	Clinton, MO	280 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Houston Methodist Continuing Care Hospital (Katy, TX)	Houston, TX	280 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Scott Altman Primary School	Pekin, IL	280 FTE
NAT-SIZE	K05 ICT - Hemet	Hemet, CA	280 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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