Steel can manufacturing · Wisconsin

Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147

Milwaukee, WI · ~133 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147 runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Steel can manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Steel can manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147 safety composite

Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147: 1.4 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.4 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332431 · Milwaukee, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO Rocky Mountain Metal…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rocky Mountain Metal Containers-Cans (0.0 TCR gap)

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Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147 averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Steel can manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147 TCR series: 2022=1.4 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147 falls in its industry

217 Steel can manufacturing establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Steel can manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147 (133 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147
Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147 (133 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Milwaukee - Sonoco Metal Packing - D147 has more employees than the Steel can manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 2.0 1.4 3 0 0
2022 1.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332431 · WI · Milwaukee

217 Steel can manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 980 employers in Milwaukee, WI · 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 Rocky Mountain Metal Containers-Cans 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardagh Metal Beverage-Elk Grove 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Owatonna Plant 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silgan Containers Plover 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Energy Center 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Asphalt, Inc. - Green Bay 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Construction, Inc-WI-Lomira 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 1 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 7,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR FROEDTERT HOSPITAL 7,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milwaukee Hospital 3,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital - Milw Campus 2,851 FTE
NAT-TCR Google Nyc Highlin 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6589 Wylie 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4601 Fairfax 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2577 Parkville 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 8201 St Thomas 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6674 Elk Grove 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6620 Power Inn 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE UMMC-JACKSON-PATIENT 133 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, 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.