Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing · Minnesota

Up North Plastics

Cottage Grove, MN · ~433 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Up North Plastics runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Up North Plastics: 3.8 TCR = 116% of Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Up North Plastics safety composite

Up North Plastics scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

−1.8

2017→2024

Up North Plastics injury rate improved

Up North Plastics's TCR fell 1.8 from 4.5 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.5 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=4.1 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326111 · Cottage Grove, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 116% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK P35
  • PHOTO Anchor Packaging Mar…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 92 inj
  • SIZE ~433 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anchor Packaging Marmaduke (0.0 TCR gap)

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Up North Plastics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Up North Plastics averages 3.8 TCR (116% of the Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Up North Plastics TCR series: 2017=4.5 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=4.1 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Up North Plastics falls in its industry

322 Bags, plastics film, single wa establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Up North Plastics (433 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Up North Plastics
Up North Plastics (433 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Up North Plastics has more employees than the Bags, plastics film, single wall or mult median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 2.8 1.9 24 0 0
2023 1.9 1.5 14 0 0
2022 3.9 3.3 14 6 0
2019 4.1 2.6 13 1 0
2018 5.7 3.7 14 3 0
2017 4.5 3.9 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326111 · MN · Cottage Grove

322 Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 33 employers in Cottage Grove, MN · 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 Anchor Packaging Marmaduke 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MARSHALL 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR H. Risch, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Poly 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Region Medical, Inc 433 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DMP1 433 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carris Health Willmar Clinic 433 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennant Company Plant 1 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renewal by Andersen 1,281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cottage Grove Site 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Cottage Grove 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2448 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Daniel Mullins Trucking, Inc. Bushnell 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sun Prairie Operations 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Complete Senior Care 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kent Quality Foods 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wabash Jonestown 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE KLS Martin LP 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Light Mayo Hospital 433 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.