Mailing cases and tubes, paper fiber (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), made from purchased paperboard · Texas

Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group

Arlington, TX · ~71 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Mailing cases and tubes, paper fiber (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group: 1.2 TCR = 37% of Mailing cases and tubes, paper fiber (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group safety composite

Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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 Industrial and Consumer Products Group: 1.2 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2024

Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.2 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Arlington, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 37% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO MINERVA TUBE PLANT
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MINERVA TUBE PLANT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group averages 1.2 TCR (37% of the Mailing cases and tubes, paper fiber (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group TCR series: 2022=1.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group falls in its industry

140 Mailing cases and tubes, paper establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Mailing cases and tubes, paper employers in Texas.

Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group (71 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 Industrial and Consumer Products Group
Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group (71 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group has more employees than the Mailing cases and tubes, paper fiber (i. 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
2024 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · TX · Arlington

140 Mailing cases and tubes, paper fiber (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 475 employers in Arlington, TX · 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 MINERVA TUBE PLANT 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif Inc. (Bay Minette Tube Plant) 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Mailing Tube Co. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caraustar Okemah, OK 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Gaines Seed Inc 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Innovex Downhole Solutions Andrews 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE SYSTEM OPERATIONS 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edinburg Location 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR GM Arlington Assembly 4,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX Arlington Warehouse 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX Arlington 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Texas Health Physician Group 3,831 FTE
NAT-TCR Carrier Enterprise LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 483029-Bristol | PA | KBS-850 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ProHealth Care 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Owens Corning Compton Roofing & Asphalt 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers C673 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE KRS Holdings Inc 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE GSE Construction Mountain Division 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE OMNI-X USA, Inc. 71 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.