Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard · Massachusetts

Abbott Action Norwood

Name: Abbott Action Norwood Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Norwood, MA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Abbott Action Norwood runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

Abbott Action Norwood: 2.3 TCR = 70% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Abbott Action Norwood safety composite

Abbott Action Norwood scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Abbott Action Norwood: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Abbott Action Norwood's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Norwood, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 70% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #9/21
PHOTO Chicago GPP
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chicago GPP (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.3
Chicago GPP

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Abbott Action

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International

2.3

What this shows Abbott Action Norwood averages 2.3 TCR (70% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

Abbott Action Norwood TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Abbott Action Norwood falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 21 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Massachusetts.

Abbott Action Norwood (23 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Abbott Action Norwood has fewer employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made 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
2019	4.6	0.0	1	0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MA · Norwood

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 79 employers in Norwood, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Chicago GPP	CHICAGO, IL	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Abbott Action Canton	CANTON, MA	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	International Paper	ROCHESTER, NY	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	International Paper Crawfordsville	CRAWFORDSVILLE, IN	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	SANDY POND-MA44	AYER	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NORTH ANDOVER-HAVERHILL-MA29	HAVERHILL	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	956-NiSource-Wrentham MA	WRENTHAM	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Integrated Builders, Inc.	BRAINTREE	23 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HallKeen Assisted Living	Norwood	717 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MANOR - NORWOOD	Norwood	660 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NORWOOD (MANOR)	Norwood	660 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Home Market Foods	Norwood	428 FTE
NAT-TCR	DSW Cutting	Birmingham, AL	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Avalon Communication Services	Sheridan, CO	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Neptune Beach	Neptune Beach, FL	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	USE - Pearson	Pearson, GA	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Cedar/Shepherd Lp	Madera, CA	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Les Schwab Tire Center-Clackamas	Clackamas, OR	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cline Machine, Inc.	Tulsa, OK	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cargill Animal Nutrition	Wilson, NC	23 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.