Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Pennsylvania

American Paper Bag

Sugar Notch, PA · ~61 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Paper Bag runs at 284% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

American Paper Bag: 9.4 TCR = 284% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Paper Bag safety composite

American Paper Bag scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

American Paper Bag: 5.2 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

American Paper Bag's TCR rose 3.4 from 5.2 in 2022 to 8.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Sugar Notch, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 284% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #14/14
  • PHOTO Portland Bonita Road
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Portland Bonita Road (0.1 TCR gap)

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American Paper Bag in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Paper Bag averages 9.4 TCR (284% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Paper Bag TCR series: 2022=5.2 · 2023=14.3 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where American Paper Bag falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 14 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Pennsylvania.

American Paper Bag (61 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate American Paper Bag
American Paper Bag (61 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

American Paper Bag has fewer employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 8.6 8.6 6 0 0
2023 14.3 14.3 11 0 0
2022 5.2 5.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · PA · Sugar Notch

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 4 employers in Sugar Notch, PA · 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 Portland Bonita Road 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inline Packaging LLC. 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jessup Manufacturing Company - Lake Bluff 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Hampton 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Connellsville 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE McKeesport Service Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forino Co., LP 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hallstrom Construction Inc. 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wren Manufacturing Inc - 1070 Hanover Street 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wren Manufacturing Inc - 1055 Hanover Street 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wren Manufacturing Inc - 1122 Hanover Street 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Avon in - 3136 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lax22 Cafe 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - Chase I 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR JG Alexander Nursing Center 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE SALMXXIII Logistics LLC 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE TMX2406 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Versatile Roofing Systems Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Arbors of Gulf Breeze 61 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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