Trash bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing · Iowa

Waverly Plastics

Waverly, IA · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waverly Plastics runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trash bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Waverly Plastics: 8.0 TCR = 243% of Trash bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waverly Plastics safety composite

Waverly Plastics scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Waverly Plastics: 6.9 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2018

Waverly Plastics's TCR rose 3.4 from 6.9 in 2016 to 10.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326111 · Waverly, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 243% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO RUTAN POLY INDUSTRIES
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RUTAN POLY INDUSTRIES (0.1 TCR gap)

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Waverly Plastics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waverly Plastics averages 8.0 TCR (243% of the Trash 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

Waverly Plastics TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=10.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Waverly Plastics falls in its industry

322 Trash bags, plastics film, sin establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Trash bags, plastics film, sin employers in Iowa.

Waverly Plastics (28 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 Waverly Plastics
Waverly Plastics (28 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Waverly Plastics has fewer employees than the Trash bags, plastics film, single wall o 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
2018 10.3 6.9 2 1 0
2017 6.9 3.4 1 1 0
2016 6.9 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326111 · IA · Waverly

322 Trash bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 32 employers in Waverly, IA · 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 RUTAN POLY INDUSTRIES 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Worldpak Flexible Packaging 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAC Machinery Bags & Materials 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NS Flexibles LLC dba St Johns Packaging 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE IOWA ADMIN 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pocahontas Warehouse 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE WCT Crystal Lake 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Council Bluff W Broadway (IA001) 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waverly Store 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waverly Health Center 468 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1005 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle USA Waverly Iowa 236 FTE
NAT-TCR D.G.M., Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 16 - Meriden Terminal 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Emc - Gwinnett 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal West - Shoemakersville 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bowery Bay 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE BWE LLC, Springfield, Ma 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spang Builders, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cce60 Aaup70 28 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, 2017, 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.