Plastics Bag and Pouch Manufacturing · Illinois

PPC Flexible Packaging

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~142 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PPC Flexible Packaging runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plastics Bag and Pouch Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

PPC Flexible Packaging: 5.1 TCR = 154% of Plastics Bag and Pouch Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PPC Flexible Packaging safety composite

PPC Flexible Packaging scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

PPC Flexible Packaging: 3.5 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2020

PPC Flexible Packaging's TCR rose 3.2 from 3.5 in 2019 to 6.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326111 · Buffalo Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 154% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #18/22
  • PHOTO Delta Plastics Littl…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Delta Plastics Little Rock (0.0 TCR gap)

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PPC Flexible Packaging in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PPC Flexible Packaging averages 5.1 TCR (154% of the Plastics Bag and Pouch Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PPC Flexible Packaging TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2020=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where PPC Flexible Packaging falls in its industry

322 Plastics Bag and Pouch Manufac establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 22 Plastics Bag and Pouch Manufac employers in Illinois.

PPC Flexible Packaging (142 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate PPC Flexible Packaging
PPC Flexible Packaging (142 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9

PPC Flexible Packaging has more employees than the Plastics Bag and Pouch Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2020 6.7 6.7 6 0 0
2019 3.5 2.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326111 · IL · Buffalo Grove

322 Plastics Bag and Pouch Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Buffalo Grove, IL · 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 Delta Plastics Little Rock 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartford (formerly Polyfirst Packaging, Inc.) 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Bag - Logan Township 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR API Industries Inc 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ferrero USA Inc 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock Island Branch 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE BioUrja Renewables, LLC 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ecolab US11 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Building Services, Inc. 2,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex - Buffalo Grove 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR BT Buffalo Grove 760 FTE
NAT-TCR Homestead Gardens, Inc. - Landscape Division 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR United Mail Presort 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay City Hospice 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Boerne Facility 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nortek Oklahoma City 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE LiveTrends Design Group, LLC. 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE PM Construction & Rehab LLC dba IPR - South Central 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Interactions, Inc. Office 142 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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