Boxes, paperboard and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Box Partners

Elgin, IL · ~266 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Box Partners runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxes, paperboard and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Box Partners: 1.9 TCR = 87% of Boxes, paperboard and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Box Partners safety composite

Box Partners scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−4.7

2017→2024

Box Partners injury rate improved

Box Partners's TCR fell 4.7 from 4.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.7 · 2018=0.4 · 2020=1.6 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Elgin, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/15
  • PHOTO Bunzl Atlanta
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~266 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bunzl Atlanta (0.0 TCR gap)

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Box Partners in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Box Partners averages 1.9 TCR (87% of the Boxes, paperboard and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Box Partners TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=0.4 · 2020=1.6 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Box Partners falls in its industry

290 Boxes, paperboard and disposab establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

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 15 Boxes, paperboard and disposab employers in Illinois.

Box Partners (266 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Box Partners
Box Partners (266 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Box Partners has more employees than the Boxes, paperboard and disposable plastic median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.9 2.6 9 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 4 0 0
2018 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2017 4.7 4.7 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · IL · Elgin

290 Boxes, paperboard and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, 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 Bunzl Atlanta 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunzl Retail Services, LLC (Groveport) 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IPD Packaging Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5831 Detroit MI 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Huen Electric, Inc. 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Boos & Co. 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geneva IL 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5157 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Sherman Hospital 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
NAT-TCR Lebanon TN Yard 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft Worth 10419 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverbend 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Luverne School Bus Garage 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flode - Odessa 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gaaug - Augusta 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hemphill Construction Co., Inc 266 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: 2024, 2023, 2020, 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.