Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Washington

Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma

Tacoma, WA · ~51 workers · 3 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

Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma: 3.4 TCR = 103% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma safety composite

Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−3.2

2022→2024

Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma injury rate improved

Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma's TCR fell 3.2 from 3.2 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.2 · 2023=7.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Tacoma, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 103% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO UPM Raflatac Fletcher
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UPM Raflatac Fletcher (0.0 TCR gap)

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Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma averages 3.4 TCR (103% 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

Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma TCR series: 2022=3.2 · 2023=7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Washington.

Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma (51 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma
Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma (51 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Arclin Surfaces - Tacoma 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 7.0 7.0 3 0 0
2022 3.2 3.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · WA · Tacoma

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 445 employers in Tacoma, WA · 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 UPM Raflatac Fletcher 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Suffolk (formerly Vitex Packaging) 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ideal Tape Company 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arclin Surfaces 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE King Columbia Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE 00601 MERWIN HYDRO PLNT 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Creative Design Builders Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corstone Contractors LLC 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
NAT-TCR Otterbein Hospice 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR IDEX Health & Science 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sharon Care Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Greyhound Bus Lines 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pacifica Trucks 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE SpringHill Suites Las Vegas Convention Center 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodco Mechanical Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lone Tree Retirement Center 51 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.