Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard · Illinois

Calumet Carton Company

South Holland, IL · ~151 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Calumet Carton Company runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Calumet Carton Company: 5.2 TCR = 159% of Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Calumet Carton Company safety composite

Calumet Carton Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Calumet Carton Company: 1.9 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2023

Calumet Carton Company's TCR rose 2.7 from 1.9 in 2017 to 4.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · South Holland, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 159% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #16/17
  • PHOTO Norwalk OH
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Norwalk OH (0.1 TCR gap)

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Calumet Carton Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Calumet Carton Company averages 5.2 TCR (159% of the Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Calumet Carton Company TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=4.7 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Calumet Carton Company falls in its industry

205 Cartons, folding (except milk) establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #16 safest of 17 Cartons, folding (except milk) employers in Illinois.

Calumet Carton Company (151 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Calumet Carton Company
Calumet Carton Company (151 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Calumet Carton Company has more employees than the Cartons, folding (except milk), made fro 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
2023 4.6 4.6 6 0 0
2022 7.7 6.3 11 0 0
2021 7.4 6.1 11 0 0
2019 4.7 4.0 7 0 0
2018 5.2 5.2 8 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · IL · South Holland

205 Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 57 employers in South Holland, 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 Norwalk OH 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accord Carton Co. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hub Folding Box Company Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mankato Packaging 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Electric Ops 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sound Seal DBA Catalyst Acoustics 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Levy Company 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE U.S. Waterproofing 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7930 SOUTH HOLLAND PCS 1,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carl Buddig & Company-50 West Taft Drive 1,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ed Miniat LLC 728 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTH HOLLAND (ILSHL) 496 FTE
NAT-TCR Dumore Corporation 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LSG Sky Chefs - 1681 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor County Senior Citizens, Inc 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City #214 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cox Transportation Services LLC 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE FSIoffice - Charlotte 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hubbell Industrial Controls 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE AccessTCA 151 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.