Beer bottles, glass, manufacturing · Texas

Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15

Waco, TX · ~375 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15 runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beer bottles, glass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Beer bottles, glass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15 safety composite

Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15: 4.8 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2018

Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15's TCR rose 2.5 from 4.8 in 2017 to 7.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327213 · Waco, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Owens Brockway Glass…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~375 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15 averages 6.0 TCR (183% 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-Illinois, Inc Plant 15 TCR series: 2017=4.8 · 2018=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15 falls in its industry

98 Beer bottles, glass, manufactu establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Beer bottles, glass, manufactu employers in Texas.

Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15 (375 employees, TCR 6.0) 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-Illinois, Inc Plant 15
Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15 (375 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 236 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15 has more 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
2018 7.3 4.3 22 7 0
2017 4.8 1.4 5 12 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327213 · TX · Waco

98 Beer bottles, glass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 314 employers in Waco, TX · 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 Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens Illinois Danville 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens - Illinois 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc. 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Foss Energy Services, Inc. 375 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thompson Pipe Group Pressure Grand Prairie 375 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&H Diversified Manufacturing 375 FTE
STATE-SIZE TX139 375 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS3 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXWAC1 1,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3Harris AS IAS Waco 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Wood Creek Apartments 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Container Company Louisville 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Coconut Point (HR) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta Plate APP 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE GDIT Chesapeake Crossways Blvd 375 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rocklin Center (Caroc) 375 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 375 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie St. John's 375 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: 2018, 2017. 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.