Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Tray-Pak Corporation

Reading, PA · ~174 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tray-Pak Corporation runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Tray-Pak Corporation: 4.8 TCR = 145% of Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tray-Pak Corporation safety composite

Tray-Pak Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−2.2

2016→2018

Tray-Pak Corporation injury rate improved

Tray-Pak Corporation's TCR fell 2.2 from 5.9 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2018=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #120/183
  • PHOTO Novares US LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Novares US LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tray-Pak Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tray-Pak Corporation averages 4.8 TCR (145% of the Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tray-Pak Corporation TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2018=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Tray-Pak Corporation falls in its industry

2,838 Bowls and bowl covers, plastic establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #120 safest of 183 Bowls and bowl covers, plastic employers in Pennsylvania.

Tray-Pak Corporation (174 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Tray-Pak Corporation
Tray-Pak Corporation (174 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tray-Pak Corporation 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2018 3.7 3.2 7 1 0
2016 5.9 5.1 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · PA · Reading

2,838 Bowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, PA · 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 Novares US LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pelican BioThermal Plymouth 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hill & Smith, Inc. - Work Area St. Charles 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engineered Plastics Molding 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Sire Power, Inc. 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wyomissing 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE League Collegiate Wear, LLC 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCG Scranton 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Aa Admiral Club Jfk B Cc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St Louis Tree Court 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR D2 - Wilmington Upholstry 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vance DMB 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2073-EJ-20730192-IF 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willert Home Products St. Louis 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE RAYMOND 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yarmouth (Mayar) 174 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: 2018, 2016. 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.