PAPERBOARD MILLS · Minnesota

3212 St Paul Box Board Mill

St Paul, MN · ~254 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

3212 St Paul Box Board Mill runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical PAPERBOARD MILLS workplace, earning a grade D.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
28
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill's OSHA Total Case Rate of 5.7 to the PAPERBOARD MILLS BLS benchmark of 3.3 (172% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

3212 St Paul Box Board Mill's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

345678 20202022 4.53.3 Industry benchmark3212 St Paul Box Board Mill TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 322121.

Where 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill falls in its industry

327 PAPERBOARD MILLS establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 PAPERBOARD MILLS employers in Minnesota.

Trend analysis for 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill

Between 2020 and 2022, 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill's Total Case Rate improved from 6.9 to 4.5 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 35% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 4.5, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 6.9, a spread of 2.4 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 2 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 2 reporting years, 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill recorded 28 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 28 injuries shown on this page for 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 322121 - PAPERBOARD MILLS.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2022)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

14 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 756,893 hours worked = 3.70 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
3212 St Paul Box Board Mill (this establishment) 5.68 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg
Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 322121
Minnesota state avg (all industries) 5.18 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 4.5 3.7 17 0 0
2020 6.9 4.4 11 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill's reported OSHA injury record versus its PAPERBOARD MILLS peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 172% of the PAPERBOARD MILLS benchmark, 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider PAPERBOARD MILLS sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill's safety grade?
3212 St Paul Box Board Mill has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.7 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for PAPERBOARD MILLS.
How many injuries has 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill reported?
3212 St Paul Box Board Mill has reported 28 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 2 years of OSHA data (2022, 2020). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.