Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing · Tennessee

Phoenix Closures Newport

Newport, TN · ~97 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Phoenix Closures Newport runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Phoenix Closures Newport: 0.5 TCR = 14% of Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Phoenix Closures Newport safety composite

Phoenix Closures Newport scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

Phoenix Closures Newport: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 0.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

Phoenix Closures Newport's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Newport, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #2/66
  • PHOTO MPC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MPC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Phoenix Closures Newport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Phoenix Closures Newport averages 0.5 TCR (14% of the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Phoenix Closures Newport TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Phoenix Closures Newport falls in its industry

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 66 Bottle caps and lids, plastics employers in Tennessee.

Phoenix Closures Newport (97 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 Phoenix Closures Newport
Phoenix Closures Newport (97 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Phoenix Closures Newport has fewer employees than the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufact 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
2018 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · TN · Newport

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 38 employers in Newport, TN · 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 MPC 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORBIS Menasha 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norton Shores 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lear Corporation - Sterling Heights 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Systems Company, LLC 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE US182: Nashville 289 - SG 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walker J Walker 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pacific Tomato Growers, Ltd. - Newport TN Housing 567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smoky Mountain Family Farms LLC - Newport TN Farm 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport TN 422 FTE
NAT-TCR Ethicon Somerville 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dynalectric Company VA 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR S05731 - Salt Lake MRF 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadway Office Center 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Des Moines Two Rivers Electric 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baytown Nursing and Rehab Center 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diversicare of Greenville 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elliott Nursing and Rehab 97 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.