Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing · Virginia

Essentra Packaging Inc.

Name: Essentra Packaging Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Colonial Heights, VA · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Essentra Packaging Inc. runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Essentra Packaging Inc.: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essentra Packaging Inc. safety composite

Essentra Packaging Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−2.7

2018→2023

Essentra Packaging Inc. injury rate improved

Essentra Packaging Inc.'s TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.7 · 2019=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326112 · Colonial Heights, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #2/12
PHOTO Direct Pack Inc. Azusa
BOOK 4y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Direct Pack Inc. Azusa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bemis North Am

0.7
Maintenance

0.7
Charter Next G

0.7

What this shows Essentra Packaging Inc. averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Essentra Packaging Inc. TCR series: 2018=2.7 · 2019=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Essentra Packaging Inc. falls in its industry

396 Film, plastics, packaging, man establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 12 Film, plastics, packaging, man employers in Virginia.

Essentra Packaging Inc. (33 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Essentra Packaging Inc. has fewer employees than the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing 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	Injuries
2023	0.0	0
2022	0.0	0
2019	0.0	0
2018	2.7	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326112 · VA · Colonial Heights

396 Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 71 employers in Colonial Heights, 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	Direct Pack Inc. Azusa	AZUSA, CA	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bemis North America - New London	NEW LONDON, WI	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Maintenance	LEXINGTON, OH	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Charter Next Generation, Inc.	SUPERIOR, WI	0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Commonwealth Gin	WINDSOR	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ALTAVISTA POWER STATION	ALTAVISTA	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NAES : Mecklenburg	CLARKSVILLE	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Orsted - Charlottesville	CHARLOTTESVILLE	33 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hillphoenix Plant 1	Colonial Heights	767 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1424	Colonial Heights	434 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1424	Colonial Heights	402 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Colonial Heights Public Schools	Colonial Heights	366 FTE
NAT-TCR	Screw Machine Engineering Co., Inc.	Chicago, IL	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	LiveGreen, Inc.	Raleigh, NC	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Suit-Kote Cortland (Mill/Lab)	Cortland, NY	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Roberts Wesleyan College	Rochester, NY	0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	JM Forest Products	Pulaski, TN	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hudson CO	Hudson, CO	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DPC Cleburne	Cleburne, TX	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	American Alloy Fabrication, Inc.	Huntsville, AL	33 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: 2023, 2022, 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.