Kraft paper stock manufacturing · Illinois

Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il

Carol Stream, IL · ~56 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Kraft paper stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il: 3.6 TCR = 111% of Kraft paper stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il safety composite

Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.8

2017→2021

Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il injury rate improved

Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il's TCR fell 1.8 from 3.2 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.2 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Carol Stream, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 111% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Neenah Mill
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Neenah Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Illinois employers → · Look up another →

Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il averages 3.6 TCR (111% of the Kraft paper stock manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il falls in its industry

317 Kraft paper stock manufacturin establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Kraft paper stock manufacturin employers in Illinois.

Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il (56 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il
Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il (56 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il has fewer employees than the Kraft paper stock manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2020 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 8.2 0.0 3 0 0
2018 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.2 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · IL · Carol Stream

317 Kraft paper stock manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 170 employers in Carol Stream, 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 Neenah Mill 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kariout LLC - Scotia 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whiting Mill 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Team Ten LLC 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bulk Power Operations 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norris Electric Cooperative 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 73G - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaumburg Reporting Center 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group 2,151 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Litho, Inc. 1,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161275-CAROL STREAM IL P&DC 960 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods - Carol Stream 853 FTE
NAT-TCR 90007870 General Dynamics 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Alder Elementary 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rousselot Peabody Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR V&C Manufacturing 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bristol 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrison Concrete Construction, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enclaves 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daniels Sharpsmart, Inc. Westland 56 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.