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

Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division

Van Wert, OH · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division: 4.4 TCR = 134% 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 - Van Wert Division safety composite

Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division: 3.1 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2024

Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division's TCR rose 2.7 from 3.1 in 2023 to 5.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Van Wert, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 134% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #95/109
  • PHOTO akers packaging serv…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: akers packaging service inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division averages 4.4 TCR (134% 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 - Van Wert Division TCR series: 2023=3.1 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #95 safest of 109 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Ohio.

Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division (34 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Service Group - Van Wert Division
Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division (34 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Akers Packaging Service Group - Van Wert Division has fewer 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
2024 5.7 2.9 2 0 0
2023 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · OH · Van Wert

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 · 48 employers in Van Wert, 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 akers packaging service inc 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kalamazoo Mfg 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR COLUMBUS, IN 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper - Three Rivers Container 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bauman Orchards Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Millcreek Gardens LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meadow View Growers, Inc 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE ayers farms inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR VAN WERT OH 951 FTE
CITY-NEAR Danfoss Power Solutions II, LLC 840 FTE
CITY-NEAR VW Cooked Meats Plant 685 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Farms Cooked Meats 597 FTE
NAT-TCR Millersburg Equipment & Machine, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6331 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR UConn Health Center 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 8561 Burlington Wa 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE American International Tooling Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE TN Warehouse 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE UPT Wichita 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nedland Industries 34 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.