Bottles, plastics, manufacturing · Iowa

Plastipak- Ottumwa

Ottumwa, IA · ~47 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plastipak- Ottumwa runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bottles, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Plastipak- Ottumwa: 2.0 TCR = 59% of Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plastipak- Ottumwa safety composite

Plastipak- Ottumwa scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Plastipak- Ottumwa: 0.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.63× in 2024

Plastipak- Ottumwa's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · Ottumwa, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 59% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO 43 RCT Jefferson
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 43 RCT Jefferson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plastipak- Ottumwa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plastipak- Ottumwa averages 2.0 TCR (59% 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- Ottumwa TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=4 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Plastipak- Ottumwa falls in its industry

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi employers in Iowa.

Plastipak- Ottumwa (47 employees, TCR 2.0) 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- Ottumwa
Plastipak- Ottumwa (47 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Plastipak- Ottumwa has fewer employees than the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing median and a lower 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 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 7.3 5.5 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · IA · Ottumwa

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ottumwa, 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 43 RCT Jefferson 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amcor Rigid Plastics 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Axium Chicago 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amcoer Allentown 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE DeJong Greenhouse LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Des Moines Office 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldfield 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms South 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS 2,121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Works 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Ottumwa Works 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Regional Health Center 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Boro Developers, Inc. d/b/a Boro Construction 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Family & Community Services, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ace Pipe Cleaning, Inc. (Texas) 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Elgin Recycling Electronics Warehouse 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ryerson - Greensboro 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yard 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Construction Services Baton Rouge 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 143 Cheshire Ct 47 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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