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

Akers Packaging Middletown

Middletown, OH · ~174 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Akers Packaging Middletown runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

Akers Packaging Middletown: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Akers Packaging Middletown safety composite

Akers Packaging Middletown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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)
F 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2016→2019

Akers Packaging Middletown injury rate improved

Akers Packaging Middletown's TCR fell 3.3 from 5.1 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2019=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Middletown, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #85/109
  • PHOTO DeLine Box Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DeLine Box Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Akers Packaging Middletown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Akers Packaging Middletown averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, 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

Akers Packaging Middletown TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2019=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Akers Packaging Middletown falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #85 safest of 109 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Ohio.

Akers Packaging Middletown (174 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 0100200300 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Akers Packaging Middletown
Akers Packaging Middletown (174 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Akers Packaging Middletown has more employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a higher 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 1.8 1.8 3 0 0
2016 5.1 1.5 7 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · OH · Middletown

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 125 employers in Middletown, OH · 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 DeLine Box Company 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt (Love Box) LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niagara Sheets LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Box Plant 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy - Martins Ferry 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martel Bakery Mix, LLC 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allen Division 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Building 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp. Middletown Works 2,339 FTE
CITY-NEAR AK Steel - Middletown Works 2,288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 870 - EFC1 Monroe, OH 1,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Medical Center 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR Handgards Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SouthEnd Exteriors 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Propane - Easley, SC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamilton Main 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercy Retirement and Care Center 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Buren Charter Township 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Qure Medical - Sturtevant 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Collections Systems Maintenance Division 174 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.