Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing · Iowa

Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch

West Branch, IA · ~137 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch: 7.8 TCR = 235% of Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch safety composite

Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch: 8.1 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2024

Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch's TCR rose 7.7 from 8.1 in 2016 to 15.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · West Branch, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 235% of ind

  • DART 13.8 DART
  • RANK #38/63
  • PHOTO Wilson Lumber Compan…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 81 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wilson Lumber Company, Inc. Kudzu Millwork (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch averages 7.8 TCR (235% of the Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=9.7 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=10.3 · 2022=6 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=15.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch falls in its industry

2,838 Bowls and bowl covers, plastic establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 63 Bowls and bowl covers, plastic employers in Iowa.

Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch (137 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch
Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch (137 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch has more employees than the Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufac median and a higher 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
2024 15.7 13.8 16 0 0
2023 5.3 4.2 5 0 0
2022 6.0 6.0 6 0 0
2021 10.3 7.7 12 0 0
2020 4.2 3.4 5 0 0
2019 7.8 5.8 12 0 0
2018 9.7 7.9 10 1 0
2017 2.7 1.4 4 0 0
2016 8.1 5.4 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IA · West Branch

2,838 Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 8 employers in West Branch, IA · 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 Wilson Lumber Company, Inc. Kudzu Millwork 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engineered Plastics Assembly 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MDI-HIB 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hastings Fiber Glass Products 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hawkeye Pride 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE EPI Power, LLC. - Microsoft DSM 12 Project 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Story Construction Company 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pure Prairie Poultry 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schenker Logistics, Iowa City/West Branch 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nordex USA 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schenker Inc. (P&G - West Branch) 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR US AUTOFORCE WEST BRANCH 98 FTE
NAT-TCR Swiss Chalet Hotel & Suites 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Methodist Home of the South Georgia Conference Inc - Macon Campus 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Landmark Snacks 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR E & L Development, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walnut Creek Foods Distribution 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Component Systems, Inc. - Pennsylvania 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE CLAAS Omaha Inc. 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Novelis - GBO 137 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.