Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing · Ohio

Films 4

Lexington, OH · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Films 4 runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Films 4: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Films 4 safety composite

Films 4 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Films 4: 1.3 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2023

Films 4's TCR rose 3.4 from 1.3 in 2022 to 4.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326112 · Lexington, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #23/44
  • PHOTO Mid South Extrusion
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mid South Extrusion (0.0 TCR gap)

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Films 4 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Films 4 averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Films 4 TCR series: 2022=1.3 · 2023=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Films 4 falls in its industry

396 Flexible packaging, plastics f establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 44 Flexible packaging, plastics f employers in Ohio.

Films 4 (68 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Films 4
Films 4 (68 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Films 4 has fewer employees than the Flexible packaging, plastics film, manuf median and a higher 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
2023 4.7 3.5 4 0 0
2022 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326112 · OH · Lexington

396 Flexible packaging, plastics film, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 23 employers in Lexington, 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 Mid South Extrusion 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bemis North America - Lebanon 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interflex Group Wilkesboro Converting Building 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arkansas Poly & Printing, LLC 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE FarmaceuticalRX LLC OH 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maria Gardens 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 1 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 4 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Next Generation Films, Inc. 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stoneridge, Inc 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stoneridge Control Devices, Inc. 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR 230 Industrial Drive 304 FTE
NAT-TCR Met-Con Construction 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hiland Dairy 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Keller Warehousing Mattoon 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HMH Residential Care Red Bank 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE ITT Engineered Valves LLC 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE D&A Glass 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mahar Tool Supply Company Inc - Sterling Heights 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winfield United - Ames 68 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. 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.