Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard · Massachusetts

Boutwell Owens

Fitchburg, MA · ~133 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Boutwell Owens runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

Boutwell Owens: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boutwell Owens safety composite

Boutwell Owens scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Boutwell Owens: 2.4 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2020

Boutwell Owens's TCR rose 2.1 from 2.4 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · Fitchburg, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Graphic Packaging Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Graphic Packaging Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Boutwell Owens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Boutwell Owens averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Boutwell Owens TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Boutwell Owens falls in its industry

205 Boxes, folding (except corruga establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Boxes, folding (except corruga employers in Massachusetts.

Boutwell Owens (133 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Boutwell Owens
Boutwell Owens (133 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Boutwell Owens has more employees than the Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made 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
2020 4.4 2.6 5 0 0
2019 4.4 4.4 6 0 0
2016 2.4 1.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · MA · Fitchburg

205 Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 46 employers in Fitchburg, MA · 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 Graphic Packaging Corporation 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foodservice : Stockton-Performance 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BOXit Corp. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Northern Corporation - Oshkosh 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plumb House, Inc. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boston 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Atlantic Red Crab Company LLC 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE REILY FOODS COMPANY - MALDEN' 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #14 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORKERS CREDIT UNION 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc of Opportunity in North Central Massachusetts 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR the highlands 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region (110-9306) 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunset Painting Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbor - Sandwich Community Unit School Dist. 430 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer #136 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Summit at Brighton/Wolk Manor 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE IDL Techniedge 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Klaussner Plant 88 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Hermosa Beach 133 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: 2020, 2019, 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.