Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing · Maine

US PL NW Poland Spring Factory

Poland Spring, ME · ~342 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

US PL NW Poland Spring Factory runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

US PL NW Poland Spring Factory: 0.8 TCR = 23% of Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

US PL NW Poland Spring Factory safety composite

US PL NW Poland Spring Factory scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

US PL NW Poland Spring Factory: 0.6 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2019

US PL NW Poland Spring Factory's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.6 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312112 · Poland Spring, ME AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 23% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Niagara Bottling, LL…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~342 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Niagara Bottling, LLC - Dallas 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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US PL NW Poland Spring Factory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows US PL NW Poland Spring Factory averages 0.8 TCR (23% of the Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

US PL NW Poland Spring Factory TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2019=1 · BLS 3.3

Where US PL NW Poland Spring Factory falls in its industry

192 Beverages, naturally carbonate establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Beverages, naturally carbonate employers in Maine.

US PL NW Poland Spring Factory (342 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 US PL NW Poland Spring Factory
US PL NW Poland Spring Factory (342 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.6

US PL NW Poland Spring Factory has more employees than the Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2019 1.0 1.0 4 0 0
2016 0.6 0.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312112 · ME · Poland Spring

192 Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 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 Niagara Bottling, LLC - Dallas 2 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BlueTriton Brands 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydration Source LLC #29 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niagara Bottling, LLC - San Antonio 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Portland Plant 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1939 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alcom LLC 346 FTE
STATE-SIZE CM Gard. ME 338 FTE
NAT-TCR 1855-WIMIL39 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-ALBIR7 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Chemours Memphis 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sun Chemical East Rutherford 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dawn Food Products - York Manufacturing 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE #604 Toms River Shoprite 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCF Hotel Service 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cooperative Production, Inc. 342 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: 2019, 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.