Balloons, rubber, manufacturing · Nebraska

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.

Kearney, NE · ~266 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Balloons, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.: 1.2 TCR = 37% of Balloons, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. safety composite

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.: 1.1 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2024

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.0 from 1.1 in 2020 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Kearney, NE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 37% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK P89
  • PHOTO Tarkett Middlefield
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~266 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tarkett Middlefield (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. averages 1.2 TCR (37% of the Balloons, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. TCR series: 2020=1.1 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. falls in its industry

257 Balloons, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (266 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (266 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. has more employees than the Balloons, rubber, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2024 2.1 1.3 5 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2020 1.1 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · NE · Kearney

257 Balloons, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 100 employers in Kearney, NE · 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 Tarkett Middlefield 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robin Industries Fredericksburg 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robin Industries, Fredericksburg Division 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR LORD Corporation - Cambridge Springs 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE MMC Contractors, Inc. 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3823 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALLO Fiber: Lincoln 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookestone Village 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Filtration : Kearney 1,211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kearney Facility 1,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 818 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-26100001-261001 791 FTE
NAT-TCR Flatiron Dragados Llc 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brotherhood Mutual Insurance 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Roberts Swiss Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Skyline Electric 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flode - Odessa 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gaaug - Augusta 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Box Partners 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hemphill Construction Co., Inc 266 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, 2020. 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.