Folding Paperboard Box Manufacturing · Tennessee

2346 Knoxville Folding

Knoxville, TN · ~205 workers · 4 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

2346 Knoxville Folding runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Folding Paperboard Box Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

2346 Knoxville Folding: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Folding Paperboard Box Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2346 Knoxville Folding safety composite

2346 Knoxville Folding scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

2346 Knoxville Folding: 2.4 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2022

2346 Knoxville Folding's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.4 in 2019 to 3.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO 2348 Lebanon Folding
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~205 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2348 Lebanon Folding (0.0 TCR gap)

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2346 Knoxville Folding in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2346 Knoxville Folding averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Folding Paperboard Box Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

2346 Knoxville Folding TCR series: 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where 2346 Knoxville Folding falls in its industry

205 Folding Paperboard Box Manufac establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 11 Folding Paperboard Box Manufac employers in Tennessee.

2346 Knoxville Folding (205 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 2346 Knoxville Folding
2346 Knoxville Folding (205 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

2346 Knoxville Folding has more employees than the Folding Paperboard Box Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2022 3.4 3.4 7 0 0
2021 2.4 1.9 5 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 3 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · TN · Knoxville

205 Folding Paperboard Box Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, TN · 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 2348 Lebanon Folding 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2504 Clinton Folding 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PaperWorks Industries Baldwinville 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hamel MN 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Memphis Contract Packaging Building 1 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Duracell Manufacturing 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 466 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 218 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR 4327 Springfield Sheet Plant 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 048 Texas Health Urgent Care 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Veyance Technologies Inc- Elkview, WV 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Reno D.C. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4507 Seminole Mill 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE GSI : Taylorville 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avangrid Management Company 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE 015602-Mobile Al P&Dc 205 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.