Pails, plastics, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

KW Container - Allentown

Allentown, PA · ~37 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KW Container - Allentown runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pails, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

KW Container - Allentown: 4.3 TCR = 132% of Pails, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KW Container - Allentown safety composite

KW Container - Allentown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

KW Container - Allentown: 0.0 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.97× in 2024

KW Container - Allentown's TCR rose 8.6 from 0.0 in 2019 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Allentown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 132% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #112/183
  • PHOTO Midwest Precision Mo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Precision Molding (0.0 TCR gap)

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KW Container - Allentown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KW Container - Allentown averages 4.3 TCR (132% of the Pails, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KW Container - Allentown TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where KW Container - Allentown falls in its industry

2,838 Pails, plastics, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #112 safest of 183 Pails, plastics, manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

KW Container - Allentown (37 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate KW Container - Allentown
KW Container - Allentown (37 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

KW Container - Allentown has fewer employees than the Pails, plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 8.6 8.6 3 0 0
2023 5.9 5.9 2 0 0
2022 7.3 7.3 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · PA · Allentown

2,838 Pails, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, 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 Midwest Precision Molding 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paarlo Plastics 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midgard 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alside Window Company - Fife 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Packing 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Packing House 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Adams Electric Cooperative Inc. Headquarters Office 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Claverack REC - Wysox 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR Givaudan Fragrances Corporation- Towaco 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR LeafGuard of Louisville 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - SAN 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hollingsworth USPS Westfield 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Antonio 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Car Wash 8108 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE BMW of Corpus Christi 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Turner 37 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, 2019. 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.