Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania

Tamaqua, PA · ~326 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania safety composite

Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

−0.9

2016→2024

Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania injury rate improved

Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania's TCR fell 0.9 from 1.5 in 2016 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.5 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=1.0 · 2019=0.2 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326111 · Tamaqua, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO First Quality Print …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~326 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Quality Print and Packaging, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=1 · 2019=0.2 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania falls in its industry

322 Bags, plastics film, single wa establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 12 Bags, plastics film, single wa employers in Pennsylvania.

Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania (326 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania
Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania (326 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania has more employees than the Bags, plastics film, single wall or mult median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2023 1.6 1.0 5 0 0
2022 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2019 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.0 0.3 4 0 0
2017 1.9 1.4 7 0 0
2016 1.5 0.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326111 · PA · Tamaqua

322 Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 22 employers in Tamaqua, PA · 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 First Quality Print and Packaging, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper - SpaceKraft (Voyager) 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rochester 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reynolds Consumer Products LLC. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Haines & Kibblehouse, Inc. 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE McConway & Torley Plant 1801 Pittsburgh, PA 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE NEFC_Procter&Gamble 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE PASCN - SCRANTON GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES - GBS 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3634 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hometown 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3634 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highwood USA LLC 103 FTE
NAT-TCR MJ Mechanical Services, Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Keytronic R&A 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heraeus Electro-Nite Co., LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cosgrove Construction 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE IKEA #210 Schaumburg 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE Somerset-MA 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE Draeger Medical Systems, Inc. - Andover 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE CRM Liberty SC 326 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.