Rulers, plastics, manufacturing · Arizona

West Pharmaceuticals Inc

Tempe, AZ · ~337 workers · 5 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

West Pharmaceuticals Inc runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Rulers, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

West Pharmaceuticals Inc: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Rulers, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Pharmaceuticals Inc safety composite

West Pharmaceuticals Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−0.9

2018→2023

West Pharmaceuticals Inc injury rate improved

West Pharmaceuticals Inc's TCR fell 0.9 from 1.2 in 2018 to 0.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.2 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.9 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Tempe, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #2/30
  • PHOTO Berry Global - Hot S…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~337 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berry Global - Hot Springs, AR (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Pharmaceuticals Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Pharmaceuticals Inc averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Rulers, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

West Pharmaceuticals Inc TCR series: 2018=1.2 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.9 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where West Pharmaceuticals Inc falls in its industry

2,838 Rulers, plastics, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 30 Rulers, plastics, manufacturin employers in Arizona.

West Pharmaceuticals Inc (337 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate West Pharmaceuticals Inc
West Pharmaceuticals Inc (337 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

West Pharmaceuticals Inc has more employees than the Rulers, plastics, manufacturing 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
2023 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2022 0.9 0.3 3 0 0
2020 0.9 0.0 3 0 0
2019 0.9 0.6 3 0 0
2018 1.2 0.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · AZ · Tempe

2,838 Rulers, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 569 employers in Tempe, AZ · 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 Berry Global - Hot Springs, AR 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silgan Plastics 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trient LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schuetz Container Systems - North Branch NJ 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 5186 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE Encompass Health East Valley 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gilbert Head Office 336 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Industrial Resources Corp 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR SALT RIVER PROJECT DISTRICT VALLEY 4,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR 202376 4,627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Plants and Offices 4,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR IES Communications, LLC 3,432 FTE
NAT-TCR MaxLinear - CB 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Georges Live Production 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Loram Maintenance of Way (Corporate Office) 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Porter Regional Hospital 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blue Ridge Va (Gatorade) 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Dingley Press, Inc 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Empire Transit District 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zumbiel Packaging 337 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.