Bottles, plastics, manufacturing · Mississippi

Western Container Hattiesburg

Hattiesburg, MS · ~83 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Container Hattiesburg runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bottles, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Western Container Hattiesburg: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Container Hattiesburg safety composite

Western Container Hattiesburg scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−1.2

2017→2024

Western Container Hattiesburg injury rate improved

Western Container Hattiesburg's TCR fell 1.2 from 3.9 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.9 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · Hattiesburg, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P43
  • PHOTO CKS Mooresville
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CKS Mooresville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Container Hattiesburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Container Hattiesburg averages 2.4 TCR (72% 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 Hattiesburg TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Western Container Hattiesburg falls in its industry

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Western Container Hattiesburg (83 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Hattiesburg
Western Container Hattiesburg (83 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Western Container Hattiesburg has more 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 2.6 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.7 2.4 1 2 0
2021 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 2.3 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2018 3.1 2.1 3 0 0
2017 3.9 1.0 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · MS · Hattiesburg

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 186 employers in Hattiesburg, MS · 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 CKS Mooresville 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parker Plastics, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Axium New Albany Plant #1 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Wales Large Packaging 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Brimingham (Mobile/Mississippi) 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 1 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus Facility 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR HATTIESBURG FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hattiesburg 4,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Processing Plant 1,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC - Processing Plant 1,163 FTE
NAT-TCR NP Rancho LLC, dba Wildfire Casino (Wildfire Rancho) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Oleson's Food Store 607 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Voss Inc dba 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hays Fluid Controls 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tribal Manufacturing MI 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE PHX-DWH-PHOENIX 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pikes Electric Inc 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Halco Lighting Technologies 83 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.