Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard · Virginia

Aspen Products - East (VA)

Richmond, VA · ~181 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aspen Products - East (VA) runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Aspen Products - East (VA): 4.9 TCR = 148% of Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aspen Products - East (VA) safety composite

Aspen Products - East (VA) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Aspen Products - East (VA) held a steady TCR band

Aspen Products - East (VA)'s TCR held near 0.2 from 3.7 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.7 · 2017=7.5 · 2019=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Richmond, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK P36
  • PHOTO Caraustar Palataka T…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caraustar Palataka Tube Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aspen Products - East (VA) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aspen Products - East (VA) averages 4.9 TCR (148% of the Paper plates 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

Aspen Products - East (VA) TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2017=7.5 · 2019=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Aspen Products - East (VA) falls in its industry

140 Paper plates made from purchas establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Aspen Products - East (VA) (181 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Aspen Products - East (VA)
Aspen Products - East (VA) (181 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Aspen Products - East (VA) has more employees than the Paper plates made from purchased paper o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2019 3.5 1.8 6 0 0
2017 7.5 5.9 14 0 0
2016 3.7 1.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · VA · Richmond

140 Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 939 employers in Richmond, VA · 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 Caraustar Palataka Tube Plant 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caraustar Buffalo 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Ammunition Container, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Container Corp JVL 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BU 3461 - I-495 Express Lanes Ext (NEXT) 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curtis Contracting,Inc. 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE 13785 Warwick Blvd 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0509 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU Health System 14,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Commonwealth University 11,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU 5,271 FTE
CITY-NEAR CJW Medical Center 3,259 FTE
NAT-TCR Tulsat LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingston Family Health Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Holliston Holdings, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cusanos Baking Company 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Terumo Cardiovascular Group 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Webster MA SNF LLC 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE JW Marriott Houston Galleria 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delhi 181 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, 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.