Grocery bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing · Indiana

Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle

North Vernon, IN · ~74 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Grocery bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle safety composite

Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−0.6

2020→2023

Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle injury rate improved

Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.5 in 2020 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.5 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326111 · North Vernon, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #3/16
  • PHOTO M&Q SMTX
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: M&Q SMTX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Grocery 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

Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle falls in its industry

322 Grocery bags, plastics film, s establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 16 Grocery bags, plastics film, s employers in Indiana.

Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle (74 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle
Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle (74 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Hilex Poly - North Vernon Recycle has fewer employees than the Grocery bags, plastics film, single wall 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
2023 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2020 2.5 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326111 · IN · North Vernon

322 Grocery bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 39 employers in North Vernon, IN · 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 M&Q SMTX 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mauser Packaging 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hilex Poly - Milesburg 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh-Pak LLC 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Homestead Main 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6678_15543 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeastern Indiana REMC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE DJ Construction 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-0992 726 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0992 LOWE S INDIANA RDC 606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martinrea Industries Inc 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR NORTH VERNON INDUSTRY CORP 284 FTE
NAT-TCR Aspen RHCC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastview Terrace 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR D&S Dental Laboratory - Waunakee 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Elm Press Terryville 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Double G Coatings Company L.P. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gpi - West Monroe La 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE dba Diversicare of Hutchinson.LP 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apricot Lane Farms 74 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.