Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and paperboard, made from purchased paperboard · Ohio

Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth

Cleveland, OH · ~109 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and paperboard, made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth: 2.3 TCR = 68% of Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and paperboard, made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth safety composite

Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth held a steady TCR band

Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.8 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.8 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1.5 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Cleveland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #54/109
  • PHOTO International Paper …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper Kennett Square Warehouse (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth averages 2.3 TCR (68% of the Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and paperboard, made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1.5 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, shipping, laminated pap establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #54 safest of 109 Boxes, shipping, laminated pap employers in Ohio.

Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth (109 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth
Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth (109 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Apex Paper Box Co.- Walworth has more employees than the Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and pap 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 3.4 1.1 3 0 0
2022 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 5.2 1.3 2 2 0
2019 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2017 3.7 2.5 3 0 0
2016 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · OH · Cleveland

1,338 Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and paperboard, made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, 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 International Paper Kennett Square Warehouse 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4345 Cincinnati Container 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deer Park Container 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt (Jet Corr), Inc. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc - Ardagh/Project Bluewave 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Don Wartko Construction, Inc. 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE All-Temp Refrigeration Inc 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR Tulsa - BMD 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AO Smith Fairview Ave 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Streck Campus 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blevins 05 Rocky Mount 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dixon Direct 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE E.E. Reed Construction LP - Houston 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Airport 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apex NC Truss 109 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.