Acrylic resins manufacturing · Indiana

Silgan/Ligonier

Ligonier, IN · ~211 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Silgan/Ligonier runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Acrylic resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Silgan/Ligonier: 1.7 TCR = 51% of Acrylic resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Silgan/Ligonier safety composite

Silgan/Ligonier scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

−1.4

2016→2017

Silgan/Ligonier injury rate improved

Silgan/Ligonier's TCR fell 1.4 from 2.4 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.4 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.4 · 2017=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Ligonier, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #5/17
  • PHOTO Optinova
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~211 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Optinova (0.0 TCR gap)

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Silgan/Ligonier in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Silgan/Ligonier averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the Acrylic resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Silgan/Ligonier TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Silgan/Ligonier falls in its industry

644 Acrylic resins manufacturing establishments

Safer than 54% 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 #5 safest of 17 Acrylic resins manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Silgan/Ligonier (211 employees, TCR 1.7) 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/Ligonier
Silgan/Ligonier (211 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Silgan/Ligonier has more employees than the Acrylic resins 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
2017 1.0 0.5 1 1 0
2016 2.4 0.0 2 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · IN · Ligonier

644 Acrylic 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 Optinova 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automated Packaging Systems LLC of Sealed Air 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA IL Marengo Plant 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MANCHESTER MOLDING & MFG CO. 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Wayne One Summit Square 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaPorte Bakery 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clayton Wakarusa 995 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chemical Manufaturing 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tenneco Automotive Operating Company 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ligonier Glass Plant 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Silgan Plastics 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ligonier 216 FTE
NAT-TCR TPC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0337 - Hempstead, Ny 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1004-CHS Corporate Operations 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Solutions : IS - FS - Western USA 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central State Hospital (CSH) 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4028-C302 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlotte G. O. (Nccgo) 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loveland Co (Colov) 211 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: 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.