Bottles, plastics, manufacturing · Texas

Western Container Corporation

Houston, TX · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Container Corporation runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bottles, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Western Container Corporation: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Container Corporation safety composite

Western Container Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Western Container Corporation: 1.7 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2024

Western Container Corporation's TCR rose 2.8 from 1.7 in 2022 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #20/28
  • PHOTO Altium Packaging - L…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Altium Packaging - Lenexa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Container Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Container Corporation averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Western Container Corporation TCR series: 2022=1.7 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Western Container Corporation falls in its industry

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 28 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi employers in Texas.

Western Container Corporation (59 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 Western Container Corporation
Western Container Corporation (59 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Western Container Corporation has fewer employees than the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 4.4 4.4 3 0 0
2022 1.7 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · TX · Houston

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 Altium Packaging - Lenexa 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Altium Packaging - Rochester 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Container 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parkway Plastics Inc 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Omega Protein INC. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Plainview SPSC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beckville Mine 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG - T.H. Wharton 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR 88-Usf-Olf Holly Springs 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nobles Cooperative Electric 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Watterson Construction 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR South County Drywall & Plastering, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 48-Usf-Olf South Frederick 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ron Marhofer Buick GMC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 401 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magnolia Metal Corp. 59 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, 2022. 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.