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

Arden Plant

Name: Arden Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Arden, NC · ~49 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Arden Plant runs at 172% 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.

Arden Plant: 5.7 TCR = 172% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arden Plant safety composite

Arden Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−4.6

2016→2019

Arden Plant injury rate improved

Arden Plant's TCR fell 4.6 from 8.0 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.0 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Arden, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 172% of ind

DART 3.4 DART
RANK #57/61
PHOTO Viking Paper Corp.
BOOK 4y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Viking Paper Corp. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Arden Plant averages 5.7 TCR (172% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

Arden Plant TCR series: 2016=8 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Arden Plant falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 61 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in North Carolina.

Arden Plant (49 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Arden Plant 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
2019	3.4	3.4	2
2018	3.7	3.7	2
2017	7.7	3.8	4
2016	8.0	2.0	4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · NC · Arden

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 77 employers in Arden, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Viking Paper Corp.	PLYMOUTH, IN	5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sustainable Corrugated Dalton	DALTON, GA	5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Aerosafe Global - Sparks, NV	SPARKS, NV	5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Partitions Plus Inc.	FINDLAY, OH	5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Zackly Rite Farms	ELM CITY	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Taylor's Nursery-Raleigh	RALEIGH	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Butterball Hatchery # 3	GOLDSBORO	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Matthews Operations Center	MATTHEWS	49 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ASHEVILLE NC	Arden	997 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DUKE-ASHEVILLE	Arden	847 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BorgWarner Asheville	Arden	680 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jabil Healthcare Asheville	Arden	566 FTE
NAT-TCR	NOC - Coral Springs	Coral Springs, FL	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fairbanks Transporation	Fairbanks, AK	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	155 Port Murray Rd	Port Murray, NJ	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Union County	Union, SC	5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	PakTech Cottage Grove	Cottage Grove, OR	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Nuplex Resins LLC (ESL)	East St. Louis, IL	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	RESA Power - San Jose	San Jose, CA	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	10841 Houser Dr	Fredericksburg, VA	49 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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