Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing · Texas

Owens-Illinois

Waco, TX · ~342 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owens-Illinois runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Owens-Illinois: 5.8 TCR = 177% of Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Owens-Illinois safety composite

Owens-Illinois scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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: 4.3 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2022

Owens-Illinois's TCR rose 3.1 from 4.3 in 2021 to 7.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.13× 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 5.8 · 177% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO O-I Streator
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~342 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: O-I Streator (0.1 TCR gap)

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Owens-Illinois in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Owens-Illinois averages 5.8 TCR (177% of the Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Owens-Illinois TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Owens-Illinois falls in its industry

98 Beverage containers, glass, ma establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #4 safest of 6 Beverage containers, glass, ma employers in Texas.

Owens-Illinois (342 employees, TCR 5.8) 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
Owens-Illinois (342 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 236 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Owens-Illinois has more employees than the Beverage containers, glass, manufacturin 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
2022 7.4 6.6 27 0 0
2021 4.3 3.7 12 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327213 · TX · Waco

98 Beverage containers, 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 O-I Streator 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens - Illinois 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens Brockway Glass Container Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens-Illinois, Inc Plant 15 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ambrose Construction 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Richland Hills Plant 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cytec Engineered Materials, Inc. 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE James Hardie Building Products 342 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 PIH Health Hospital - Downey 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR John Wm. Macy's 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Oakdale Rehabilitiation and Skilled Nursing Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Velocity Honolulu 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schreiber Foods, Inc. Carthage 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE MD 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crystal Mountain Inc 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indianapolis IN (Reddi Wip) 342 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.