Corrugated And Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing · North Carolina

5520 Forest City Permanent

Forest City, NC · ~299 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5520 Forest City Permanent runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Corrugated And Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

5520 Forest City Permanent: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Corrugated And Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5520 Forest City Permanent safety composite

5520 Forest City Permanent scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

5520 Forest City Permanent: 0.6 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 3.05× in 2022

5520 Forest City Permanent's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.6 in 2019 to 1.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 3.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Forest City, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #10/61
  • PHOTO Chicago Dupage - D006
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~299 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chicago Dupage - D006 (0.0 TCR gap)

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5520 Forest City Permanent in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5520 Forest City Permanent averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Corrugated And Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

5520 Forest City Permanent TCR series: 2019=0.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where 5520 Forest City Permanent falls in its industry

1,338 Corrugated And Solid Fiber Box establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 61 Corrugated And Solid Fiber Box employers in North Carolina.

5520 Forest City Permanent (299 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate 5520 Forest City Permanent
5520 Forest City Permanent (299 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

5520 Forest City Permanent has more employees than the Corrugated And Solid Fiber Box Manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 1.7 1.7 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.6 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · NC · Forest City

1,338 Corrugated And Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 38 employers in Forest City, NC · 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 Chicago Dupage - D006 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BCI - Syracuse Division 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4187 College Park Box Plant 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signature Packaging and Paper LLC 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plant 5 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Attends Healthcare 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATI Industrial Automation 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Home Group 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest City Permanent 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1036 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1036 379 FTE
NAT-TCR Maple Grove Rehab 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brisar Industries, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR LDER - La Porte 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dulles 37110 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Transmission Construction - 205 South Field Parkway Forest Park, GA 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE INTEGRIS Canadian Valley Hospital 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE SC - Boeing 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town Hall 299 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.