Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard · Alabama

Caraustar

Bay Minette, AL · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caraustar runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

Caraustar: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caraustar safety composite

Caraustar scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

Caraustar: 0.0 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Caraustar's TCR rose 5.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 5.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Bay Minette, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Caraustar Arlington …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caraustar Arlington 407 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Caraustar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caraustar averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Caraustar TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Caraustar falls in its industry

140 Fiber tubes made from purchase establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Fiber tubes made from purchase employers in Alabama.

Caraustar (45 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Caraustar
Caraustar (45 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Caraustar has fewer employees than the Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 5.8 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · AL · Bay Minette

140 Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 31 employers in Bay Minette, AL · 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 Caraustar Arlington 407 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif (IP ROCK HILL) 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AJM Packaging - Detroit 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PA148 Lehigh Valley (Dixie) Easton 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corbitt Power & Light LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gadsden Complex - APC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gadsden Complex 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottage Builders Inc, dba as CBI Construction Services 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Standard Furniture Manufacturing 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quincy Compressor, LLC (Plant 1) 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2739 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2739 259 FTE
NAT-TCR Newark Liberty International Airport Marriott 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Compression Technologies and Services : SVC-Aurora CO-USA 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 243 - Jackson-MI 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 220 - Oakview 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Piedmont Graphics, Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPA - Provisioning 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Simon Roofing and Sheet Metal Corp - Tampa-003 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Las Vegas South 45 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. 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.