Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard · California

AJM Packaging - El Cajon

El Cajon, CA · ~315 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AJM Packaging - El Cajon runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade F.

AJM Packaging - El Cajon: 7.5 TCR = 229% of Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AJM Packaging - El Cajon safety composite

AJM Packaging - El Cajon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

AJM Packaging - El Cajon: 3.4 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2024

AJM Packaging - El Cajon's TCR rose 2.0 from 3.4 in 2021 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · El Cajon, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 229% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Aspen Products - Sou…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 74 inj
  • SIZE ~315 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aspen Products - South (GA) (0.0 TCR gap)

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AJM Packaging - El Cajon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AJM Packaging - El Cajon averages 7.5 TCR (229% of the Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

AJM Packaging - El Cajon TCR series: 2021=3.4 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=15.1 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where AJM Packaging - El Cajon falls in its industry

140 Paper plates made from purchas establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Paper plates made from purchas employers in California.

AJM Packaging - El Cajon (315 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate AJM Packaging - El Cajon
AJM Packaging - El Cajon (315 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

AJM Packaging - El Cajon has more employees than the Paper plates made from purchased paper o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 5.3 4.0 16 0 0
2023 15.1 6.0 24 21 0
2022 6.5 5.3 22 0 0
2021 3.4 3.1 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · CA · El Cajon

140 Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 236 employers in El Cajon, CA · 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 Aspen Products - South (GA) 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michigan City Paper Box Woodland Location 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yazoo Mills, Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Live Oak Farms 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE M&J Farm Labor Contractor, Inc 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 313 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 308 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN REGION : SDU 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 370 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics 1,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem Tronics 938 FTE
NAT-TCR Viking SupplyNet & Fabrication Services - Austin (TX) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DMF8 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sioux City #95 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR COD041 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trade Port 2 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 448 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Derby Health & Rehab 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE PA - Carlisle Multi-Client 315 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.