Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC)

Felton, PA · ~149 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC) runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC): 2.7 TCR = 82% of Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC) safety composite

Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC): 2.2 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2022

Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC)'s TCR rose 1.0 from 2.2 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Felton, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #72/183
  • PHOTO Engineered Composite…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Engineered Composites Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC) averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC) TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2022=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC) falls in its industry

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and ext establishments

Safer than 63% 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 #72 safest of 183 Motor vehicle moldings and ext employers in Pennsylvania.

Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC) (149 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC)
Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC) (149 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Novares US LLC (formerly Key Plastics LLC) has more employees than the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, p median and a lower 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
2022 3.2 2.1 3 0 0
2017 2.2 2.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · PA · Felton

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 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 Engineered Composites Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maryville 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barberton 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AHF Products Lancaster Floor Plant 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jaindl Farms LLC 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Construction Company, Inc 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Pennsylvania - Blue Bell - Gas Operations (60G1) 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE OMNOVA SOLUTIONS INC 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novares US LLC 83 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 2181 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Stewart Bros., Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Individual 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Orica USA 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 102594 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kalispell Headquarters 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Youngsville Raleigh Nc 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swire Coca-Cola of Colorado Springs 149 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: 2022, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.