Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing · New York

Protective Industries Inc.

Buffalo, NY · ~446 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Protective Industries Inc. runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Protective Industries Inc.: 2.1 TCR = 62% of Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Protective Industries Inc. safety composite

Protective Industries Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Protective Industries Inc. held a steady TCR band

Protective Industries Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 2.0 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.0 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=2.6 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #25/87
  • PHOTO Mauser Packaging Sol…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 71 inj
  • SIZE ~446 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mauser Packaging Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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Protective Industries Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Protective Industries Inc. averages 2.1 TCR (62% 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

Protective Industries Inc. TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=2.6 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Protective Industries Inc. falls in its industry

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 87 Bottle caps and lids, plastics employers in New York.

Protective Industries Inc. (446 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Protective Industries Inc.
Protective Industries Inc. (446 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Protective Industries Inc. has more 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
2024 1.9 1.5 10 0 0
2022 2.6 2.0 13 0 0
2021 2.1 1.6 9 1 0
2020 2.5 2.2 9 1 0
2019 2.1 1.6 10 0 0
2018 1.1 1.1 5 0 0
2017 2.3 1.4 8 0 0
2016 2.0 1.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · NY · Buffalo

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, NY · 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 Mauser Packaging Solutions 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Plastics Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milgard Pultrusion 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pelican Products Ontario Case Center 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE National Fuel Gas Company 446 FTE
STATE-SIZE 12 Plant 446 FTE
STATE-SIZE O-AT-KA Milk Products LLC 446 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Yerkes 446 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo General Hospital 3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital of Buffalo 2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital 1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR Paulson Electric Co., Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Eurecat U.S. Incorporated - Pasadena Plant 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #61 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pickens 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Arkansas Development Council 446 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morrison Industries 446 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoebe Allentown 446 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solar Industries Inc 446 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, 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.