Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Illinois

Bagcraft - Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~282 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bagcraft - Chicago runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Bagcraft - Chicago: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bagcraft - Chicago safety composite

Bagcraft - Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−0.4

2016→2019

Bagcraft - Chicago injury rate improved

Bagcraft - Chicago's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.8 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.8 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #6/32
  • PHOTO Precision Coating
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~282 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Precision Coating (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bagcraft - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bagcraft - Chicago averages 1.9 TCR (57% 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

Bagcraft - Chicago TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Bagcraft - Chicago falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 32 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Illinois.

Bagcraft - Chicago (282 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Bagcraft - Chicago
Bagcraft - Chicago (282 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Bagcraft - Chicago has more employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a lower 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
2019 1.4 0.9 5 0 0
2018 2.4 2.1 8 0 0
2016 1.8 1.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · IL · Chicago

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Precision Coating 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nekoosa Coated Products (SP) 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evergreen Packaging - Waynesville 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Graham 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sterling Steel Company, LLC 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE 531-00539 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1596 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willow Primary School 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Wells Fargo Chandler 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Memorial Medical Ctr - East Tx 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson - 054 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-INEVA28 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE United Technologies Fire & Security Americas Corp Inc. 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thor Motor Coach/Plant 750 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE #566 Hamilton Square Shoprite 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Xl Concrete Masonry - Vegas 282 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, 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.