Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins manufacturing · Indiana

Silgan Plastics

Ligonier, IN · ~219 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Silgan Plastics runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Silgan Plastics: 3.3 TCR = 101% of Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Silgan Plastics safety composite

Silgan Plastics scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−4.9

2020→2023

Silgan Plastics injury rate improved

Silgan Plastics's TCR fell 4.9 from 5.8 in 2020 to 0.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.8 · 2023=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Ligonier, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 101% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO Agri-Nutrients Compa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agri-Nutrients Company, Inc dba ANCOS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Silgan Plastics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Silgan Plastics averages 3.3 TCR (101% of the Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Silgan Plastics TCR series: 2020=5.8 · 2023=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Silgan Plastics falls in its industry

644 Polyethylene terephathalate (P establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 17 Polyethylene terephathalate (P employers in Indiana.

Silgan Plastics (219 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Silgan Plastics
Silgan Plastics (219 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Silgan Plastics has more employees than the Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins 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
2023 0.9 0.4 2 0 0
2020 5.8 2.2 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · IN · Ligonier

644 Polyethylene terephathalate (PET) resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 21 employers in Ligonier, IN · 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 Agri-Nutrients Company, Inc dba ANCOS 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Promerus BRDC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AOC, LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SpillTech 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midwest Roll Forming & Mfg 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division Office and Engineering Center 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 148A LCI 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCI - 085 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tenneco Automotive Operating Company 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ligonier Glass Plant 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ligonier 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR Silgan/Ligonier 211 FTE
NAT-TCR Dattco - Woodstock 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Emmett's Excavation, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hotel Effie Sandestin 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Apex Marine, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tuttle Ice Cream Plant 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zenith Tech, Inc - Bridge/Road/Indust./Trans. 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herbalife International of America, Inc. - LA Live 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willow Creek Companies, LLC 219 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, 2020. 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.