Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing · California

Owens Illinois

Vernon, CA · ~273 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owens Illinois runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Owens Illinois: 4.8 TCR = 146% 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 31%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−2.0

2018→2021

Owens Illinois injury rate improved

Owens Illinois's TCR fell 2.0 from 5.8 in 2018 to 3.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.8 · 2021=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327213 · Vernon, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Ardagh Glass Inc Pev…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~273 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ardagh Glass Inc Pevely (0.0 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 4.8 TCR (146% 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: 2018=5.8 · 2021=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Owens Illinois falls in its industry

98 Beverage containers, glass, ma establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Beverage containers, glass, ma employers in California.

Owens Illinois (273 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 (273 employees, TCR 4.8) 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
2021 3.8 3.3 8 0 0
2018 5.8 5.8 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327213 · CA · Vernon

98 Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, CA · 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 Ardagh Glass Inc Pevely 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardagh Glass Inc Wilson 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardagh Glass Inc Lincoln 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunset Olive Oil, LLC 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frantz Wholesale Nursery LLC 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office/Processing 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Petaluma Plant 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guardian Industries, LLC 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
NAT-TCR Color Web Printers 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4765-ELPCX0720 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Westminster College (Pa) 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bayfront Health Spring Hill 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Engineered Films Sioux Falls 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADTS - Main Office 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nazdar Kansas 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE NEX Transport (MAP) 273 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: 2021, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.