Beer bottles, glass, manufacturing · North Carolina

Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc

Lexington, NC · ~234 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc runs at 284% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer bottles, glass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc: 9.4 TCR = 284% of Beer bottles, glass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc safety composite

Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−16.9

2021→2024

Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc injury rate improved

Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc's TCR fell 16.9 from 20.0 in 2021 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 20.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=20.0 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327213 · Lexington, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 284% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Anchor Glass Warner …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anchor Glass Warner Robins (0.1 TCR gap)

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Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc averages 9.4 TCR (284% of the Beer bottles, glass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc TCR series: 2021=20 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc falls in its industry

98 Beer bottles, glass, manufactu establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Beer bottles, glass, manufactu employers in North Carolina.

Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc (234 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 236 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc
Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc (234 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 236 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc has fewer employees than the Beer bottles, glass, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 3.1 2.1 9 0 0
2023 3.9 3.6 13 1 0
2022 10.6 8.0 24 1 0
2021 20.0 15.8 22 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327213 · NC · Lexington

98 Beer bottles, glass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 120 employers in Lexington, NC · 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 Anchor Glass Warner Robins 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anchor Glass Container 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR O-I 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc. Plant 76 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highland Paving CO LLC 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Infrastructure Group, Inc 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gildan Yarns, LLC (Plant # 74) 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albemarle U.S. Inc 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Schools 3,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Government 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Windows & Door 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASCO Power Technologies 639 FTE
NAT-TCR SMT Laredo 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanover Terrace 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Baking Company 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Shakopee, MN 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3400 - Lihue Kauai 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DBA5 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glovis America Hu 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE ShopRite of Lincoln Park, Inc. 234 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.