Pails, plastics, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

KW Plastics Container Allentown

Allentown, PA · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KW Plastics Container Allentown runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pails, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

KW Plastics Container Allentown: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Pails, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KW Plastics Container Allentown safety composite

KW Plastics Container Allentown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

−4.0

2016→2017

KW Plastics Container Allentown injury rate improved

KW Plastics Container Allentown's TCR fell 4.0 from 8.5 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.5 · 2017=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #144/183
  • PHOTO Sterilite Corporatio…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sterilite Corporation - ENS (0.0 TCR gap)

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KW Plastics Container Allentown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KW Plastics Container Allentown averages 6.5 TCR (198% 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 Plastics Container Allentown TCR series: 2016=8.5 · 2017=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where KW Plastics Container Allentown falls in its industry

2,838 Pails, plastics, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #144 safest of 183 Pails, plastics, manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

KW Plastics Container Allentown (24 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Plastics Container Allentown
KW Plastics Container Allentown (24 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

KW Plastics 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
2017 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2016 8.5 8.5 2 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 Sterilite Corporation - ENS 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Explore Industries/ Leisure Pools USA Trading 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR North America : VPI East 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSC Industries - Evansville 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Avon Heights Mushrooms, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waynesburg PA 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Electric Power LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenaska Westmoreland Generating Station 24 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 0076 - Independence, MO 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sulphur Springs (Txsul) 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bangor (Meban) 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HITCO Carbon Composites, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allied Mineral Products - Anniston 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE AEM 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ammon Nursery 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Inn & Suites 24 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: 2017, 2016. 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.