Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing · Arkansas

Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1

Name: Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ft. Smith, AR · ~103 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1 runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1 safety composite

Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1: 1.9 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2023

Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1's TCR rose 2.5 from 1.9 in 2021 to 4.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Ft. Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

DART 2.9 DART
RANK #23/30
PHOTO Appalachian Plastics…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 16 inj
SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Appalachian Plastics, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essentra

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Brentwood Indu

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Reliable Caps,

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What this shows Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1 averages 4.2 TCR (128% of the Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1 TCR series: 2021=1.9 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1 falls in its industry

2,838 Bowls and bowl covers, plastic establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 30 Bowls and bowl covers, plastic employers in Arkansas.

Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1 (103 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Silgan Plastic Food Containers - 1 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
2023	4.4	2.9	6
2022	6.4	6.4	8
2021	1.9	1.9	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · AR · Ft. Smith

2,838 Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Ft. Smith, AR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Appalachian Plastics, Inc.	GLADE SPRING, VA	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Essentra	ERIE, PA	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Brentwood Industries Inc., Martinsburg WV	MARTINSBURG, WV	4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Reliable Caps, LLC	OLATHE, KS	4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kinco Constructors	LITTLE ROCK	103 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Marrs Electric Inc. of Arkansas	SPRINGDALE	103 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Woodson Incorporated	MABELVALE	103 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 2743	SHERWOOD	103 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ARK	Ft. Smith	391 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ft. Smith Metal	Ft. Smith	172 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ARFOS - FT. SMITH	Ft. Smith	149 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FT. SMITH (ARFOS)	Ft. Smith	117 FTE
NAT-TCR	Advanced Manufacturing Division	Camden, NJ	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	USM Fulton	Chicago, IL	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ohio Gasket and Shim	Akron, OH	4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Universal Electric Company INc	West Springfield, MA	4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Athea Packaging	Milwaukee, WI	103 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ACGC Junior/Senior High	Grove City, MN	103 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pullman Miami Hotel	Miami, FL	103 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Specialty Bakers LLC	Marysville, PA	103 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.