Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing · North Carolina

Transcontinental Packaging Matthews

Matthews, NC · ~104 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Transcontinental Packaging Matthews runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Transcontinental Packaging Matthews: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Transcontinental Packaging Matthews safety composite

Transcontinental Packaging Matthews scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Transcontinental Packaging Matthews: 0.5 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.68× in 2024

Transcontinental Packaging Matthews's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.5 in 2022 to 1.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326112 · Matthews, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #3/23
  • PHOTO Uni Poly Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Uni Poly Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Transcontinental Packaging Matthews in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Transcontinental Packaging Matthews averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Transcontinental Packaging Matthews TCR series: 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Transcontinental Packaging Matthews falls in its industry

396 Film, plastics, packaging, man establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 23 Film, plastics, packaging, man employers in North Carolina.

Transcontinental Packaging Matthews (104 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Transcontinental Packaging Matthews
Transcontinental Packaging Matthews (104 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Transcontinental Packaging Matthews has more employees than the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2022 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326112 · NC · Matthews

396 Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 94 employers in Matthews, NC · 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 Uni Poly Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amcor Flexibles North America - Oshkosh South 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Contempo Card Company 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pac worldwide 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE N. G. Purvis Farms 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Services (past E&I) 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Integrated Power Services Burlington Service Center 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coolsys CE Holt 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Matthews Medical Center 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-06000 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC201 DC201 MATTHEWS NC 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC201 353 FTE
NAT-TCR Peterbilt of Michigan, Inc. - Clare 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mount Carmel Medical Office Building #5 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Power Systems 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Harding's #421 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dayton Phoenix Group Inc 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE McNaughton-McKay Electric Company - Southern Region - Norcross, GA 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE APHIX - Louisville 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premium Waters 104 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.