Plastics materials merchant wholesalers · Georgia

Southern Container, LLC. Building 2

Dalton, GA · ~23 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plastics materials merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Southern Container, LLC. Building 2: 5.8 TCR = 265% of Plastics materials merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 safety composite

Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.8

2019→2024

Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 injury rate improved

Southern Container, LLC. Building 2's TCR fell 12.8 from 15.0 in 2019 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=15.0 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424610 · Dalton, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.8 · 265% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Kent, WA
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kent, WA (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 averages 5.8 TCR (265% of the Plastics materials merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 TCR series: 2019=15 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 falls in its industry

101 Plastics materials merchant wh establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Plastics materials merchant wh employers in Georgia.

Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 (23 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0100200300 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Container, LLC. Building 2
Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 (23 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 has fewer employees than the Plastics materials merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.4 4.2 2 0 0
2020 9.4 0.0 2 0 0
2019 15.0 5.0 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424610 · GA · Dalton

101 Plastics materials merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 292 employers in Dalton, GA · 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 Kent, WA 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flower Mound 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PolyWorks, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewisberry 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE C0308 Kingsland 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morningside of Macon 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 0578 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1633 ATLANTA KNOPF CORE 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamilton Medical Center 1,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 97 1,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Dalton GA Antioch 1,077 FTE
NAT-TCR Hattiesburg 12728 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Painting, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sewell Motor Express 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Plumbers' Supply Company - DC 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plant PX 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincoln NE Axle Shop 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casper WY FXFE-CSR 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conway AR FXFE-CWY 23 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.