Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing · Indiana

Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics

Charlestown, IN · ~383 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics: 2.5 TCR = 74% of Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics safety composite

Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics: 2.5 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.28× in 2024

Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.5 in 2021 to 3.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Charlestown, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #55/143
  • PHOTO YKK AP America - Mac…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~383 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: YKK AP America - Macon Residential Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics averages 2.5 TCR (74% of the Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics TCR series: 2021=2.5 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics falls in its industry

2,838 Trash containers, plastics, ma establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 143 Trash containers, plastics, ma employers in Indiana.

Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics (383 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics
Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics (383 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ultra Manufacturing USA dba Mitchell Plastics has more employees than the Trash containers, plastics, manufacturin median and a lower 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
2024 3.4 0.7 10 0 0
2023 1.9 0.3 6 0 0
2022 1.9 0.6 7 0 0
2021 2.5 0.5 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IN · Charlestown

2,838 Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 19 employers in Charlestown, 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 YKK AP America - Macon Residential Facility 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hunter Industries 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AIM Processing 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glasmasters - Sweetwater TN 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shiel Sexton Company 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1580 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE VenuWorks of Evansville, LLC. 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knauf Insulation Plant 1 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR K & M Indiana dba Mitchell Plastics 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Warehouse Corporation - Riverridge / Port Road 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 024-00057 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charlestown 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Book Fairs - Dallas 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Waste Industries Wilmington 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Insight FS - Antigo 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR C.A. Hull Co., Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tampa - GMS, Himes, US Scouts 383 FTE
NAT-SIZE Argo Facility 383 FTE
NAT-SIZE UMKokopelli921 383 FTE
NAT-SIZE DynaTen 383 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.