Coated board made in paperboard mills · Georgia

Caraustar Sweetwater

Name: Caraustar Sweetwater Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Austell, GA · ~72 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Caraustar Sweetwater runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Coated board made in paperboard mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Caraustar Sweetwater: 6.0 TCR = 182% of Coated board made in paperboard mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caraustar Sweetwater safety composite

Caraustar Sweetwater scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Caraustar Sweetwater: 4.5 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2017

Caraustar Sweetwater's TCR rose 3.0 from 4.5 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322130 · Austell, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

DART 3.8 DART
RANK #10/11
PHOTO Green Meadows Paper …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Meadows Paper Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Caraustar Sweetwater averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Coated board made in paperboard mills BLS benchmark).

Caraustar Sweetwater TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Caraustar Sweetwater falls in its industry

181 Coated board made in paperboar establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Coated board made in paperboar employers in Georgia.

Caraustar Sweetwater (72 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Caraustar Sweetwater has fewer employees than the Coated board made in paperboard mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2017	7.5	3.8	7	1	0
2016	4.5	2.7	4	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · GA · Austell

181 Coated board made in paperboard mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 113 employers in Austell, GA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Green Meadows Paper Company	MASSILLON, OH	6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CALLENOR CO	MENOMONEE FALLS, WI	6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Jackson Paper Manufacturing Company	SYLVA, NC	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Allpak Container	RENTON, WA	6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Pond Constructors, Inc.	PEACHTREE CORNERS	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	North Shallowford Operating - 4404 North Shallowford Rd.	ATLANTA	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Brunswick Operating and Transmission Maintenance Center 3951 and 3915 Community Rd	ATLANTA	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Florida City Gas	ATLANTA	72 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WellStar Cobb Hospital	Austell	2,856 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Six Flags Over Georgia	Austell	1,044 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ATLANTA OPERA WAREHOUSE	Austell	863 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Plateau Excavation, Inc	Austell	762 FTE
NAT-TCR	N and R of Anderson LLC	Anderson, MO	6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	CC008 - Anaheim- CA	Anaheim, CA	6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Frederick - Aldi	Frederick, MD	6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Piqua (Ohpiq)	Piqua, OH	6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hydro - Burlington	Burlington, NC	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Lincoln County Inc	Troy, MO	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Location #3	Madison, WI	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Location #2	Madison, WI	72 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.