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

Aurora Container

Aurora, IL · ~100 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aurora Container runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Aurora Container: 1.2 TCR = 37% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aurora Container safety composite

Aurora Container scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

Aurora Container: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2021

Aurora Container's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Aurora, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #13/86
  • PHOTO Wunderlich Fibre Box…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wunderlich Fibre Box Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aurora Container in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aurora Container averages 1.2 TCR (37% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, 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

Aurora Container TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.9 · 2021=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Aurora Container falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 86 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Illinois.

Aurora Container (100 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 Aurora Container
Aurora Container (100 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Aurora Container has fewer employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made 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
2021 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2019 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.5 0.8 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IL · Aurora

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 325 employers in Aurora, IL · 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 Wunderlich Fibre Box Company 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hood Container Wilmington 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper Beltline 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper Company 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE TCR SYSTEMS LLC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dealer Installation 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evans Electric 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rethink Electric LLC 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indian Prairie School District 204 3,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Factor Aurora 2,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rush Copley Medical Center, Inc. 2,163 FTE
CITY-NEAR ANDY FRAIN SERVICES INC 2,100 FTE
NAT-TCR US015: Mobile 222 - SG 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR US123: Jackson 294 - SG 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanford Service Center 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR OCPW OC Construction 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Middletown General Government (City Hall) 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE US102: Kansas City 332 - SG 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kansas City, MO - Topeka, KS HVAC 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thompson Concrete Construction Ltd. 100 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: 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.