Shipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard · Minnesota

Austin Box Plant

Austin, MN · ~132 workers · 2 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

Austin Box Plant runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Shipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

Austin Box Plant: 3.4 TCR = 103% of Shipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austin Box Plant safety composite

Austin Box Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Austin Box Plant held a steady TCR band

Austin Box Plant's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.5 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.5 · 2018=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Austin, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 103% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #23/30
  • PHOTO Pratt (Love Box) LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pratt (Love Box) LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Austin Box Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Austin Box Plant averages 3.4 TCR (103% of the Shipping containers, corrugated, 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

Austin Box Plant TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Austin Box Plant falls in its industry

1,338 Shipping containers, corrugate establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 30 Shipping containers, corrugate employers in Minnesota.

Austin Box Plant (132 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Austin Box Plant
Austin Box Plant (132 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Austin Box Plant has more employees than the Shipping containers, corrugated, made fr 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2018 3.3 2.0 5 0 0
2017 3.5 2.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MN · Austin

1,338 Shipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Austin, MN · 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 Pratt (Love Box) LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niagara Sheets LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cincinnati Container 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeLine Box Company 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Country Power 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Office 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamernick Decorating Center 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods - Austin 1,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods - Austin Plant 1,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Foods Corporation 1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Pork Processors Inc. 1,208 FTE
NAT-TCR Roadready Transfer Service 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student Inc 12099 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Plastic Manufacturer 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2497 Adie Road Maryland Heights 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pocono Manor Resort and Spa 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Cottages 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Standex Electronics Division 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southside Physicians Network 132 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: 2018, 2017. 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.