Folding boxes (except corrugated) made from purchased paperboard · Tennessee

Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant

Kingston Springs, TN · ~101 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Folding boxes (except corrugated) made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Folding boxes (except corrugated) made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant safety composite

Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant held a steady TCR band

Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.7 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · Kingston Springs, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO TPC Printing / Packa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Folding boxes (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

Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant falls in its industry

205 Folding boxes (except corrugat establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Folding boxes (except corrugat employers in Tennessee.

Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant (101 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant
Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant (101 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant has fewer employees than the Folding boxes (except corrugated) made f median and a lower 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
2019 1.9 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.7 0.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · TN · Kingston Springs

205 Folding boxes (except corrugated) made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 3 employers in Kingston Springs, TN · 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 TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2930 Fresno FoldPak 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joplin Folding 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2428 Eutaw Folding 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Watts Bar Nuclear Gnerating Station _SGRP 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE J A Street and Associates 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blount Excavating 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE LAKEWAY CONTAINER, INC 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kingston Springs TN 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR LU Inc 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Regional Distribution Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Minutemen 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DuBois Chemicals dba Heatbath and CAR Products 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DFW Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE APS Garfield 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gwinnett 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE CIR Electrical Construction Corp 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors Lockport New Construction 101 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, 2017, 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.