Bottles, plastics, manufacturing · Texas

Plastipak- Highlands

Highlands, TX · ~98 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plastipak- Highlands runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bottles, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Plastipak- Highlands: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plastipak- Highlands safety composite

Plastipak- Highlands scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2016→2024

Plastipak- Highlands injury rate improved

Plastipak- Highlands's TCR fell 3.6 from 5.8 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.8 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · Highlands, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #18/28
  • PHOTO CKS Arden
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CKS Arden (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plastipak- Highlands in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plastipak- Highlands averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plastipak- Highlands TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Plastipak- Highlands falls in its industry

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 28 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi employers in Texas.

Plastipak- Highlands (98 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 Plastipak- Highlands
Plastipak- Highlands (98 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Plastipak- Highlands has more employees than the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 2.2 2.2 3 0 0
2023 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2019 3.4 1.7 4 0 0
2018 4.4 3.5 5 0 0
2017 2.9 0.9 3 0 0
2016 5.8 3.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · TX · Highlands

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Highlands, 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 CKS Arden 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Axium Addison 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ottawa 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20 - Orange Avenue 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. - Fain/West Panhandle 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Service Center 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Texarkana Operations 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE EL PASO TX INFO CEN 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR ZXP Technologies 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highlands- Dry Bulk Transport 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR FoodTown #209 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highlands 87 FTE
NAT-TCR Vcf 825 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #159 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Great South Timber & Lumber, LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Roseville Plant 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE OHDC 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE BEN 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amthor Steel 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holyoke - 40 Bobala Road 98 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.