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

Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago

University Park, IL · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago runs at 55% 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.

Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago safety composite

Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2023→2024

Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago injury rate improved

Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago's TCR fell 1.1 from 2.4 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.4 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · University Park, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/86
  • PHOTO Box Board Products
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Box Board Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago averages 1.8 TCR (55% 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 Service Group - Chicago TCR series: 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 86 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Illinois.

Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago (93 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Service Group - Chicago
Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago (93 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Akers Packaging Service Group - Chicago 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
2024 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IL · University Park

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 49 employers in University Park, IL · 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 Box Board Products 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper Griffin Georgia 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Touchpoint 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covington Container 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ILAWC Interurban 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, LaSalle Station 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinney Contractors Inc 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tecta America 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - IGQ2 1,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Signal Corp (University Park) 490 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Signal Safety & Security Systems Group 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amex Nooter 407 FTE
NAT-TCR Western Specialty Contractors - Seattle 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Arch Wood Protection, Inc (Technical Center) 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR National Marker Company 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NFXL Delivery Service, LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE C & H Industrial Services 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0758 College Park 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millwork Brothers, Inc 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acero Precision 93 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.