Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard · North Carolina

Carolina Paper Tubes

Zirconia, NC · ~39 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carolina Paper Tubes runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade F.

Carolina Paper Tubes: 6.9 TCR = 210% of Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carolina Paper Tubes safety composite

Carolina Paper Tubes scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.0

2016→2020

Carolina Paper Tubes injury rate improved

Carolina Paper Tubes's TCR fell 2.0 from 8.3 in 2016 to 6.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.3 · 2017=2.3 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Zirconia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 210% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Pacific Paper Tube, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. - Stockton (0.1 TCR gap)

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Carolina Paper Tubes in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carolina Paper Tubes averages 6.9 TCR (210% 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

Carolina Paper Tubes TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=2.3 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Carolina Paper Tubes falls in its industry

140 Fiber tubes made from purchase establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Fiber tubes made from purchase employers in North Carolina.

Carolina Paper Tubes (39 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 Carolina Paper Tubes
Carolina Paper Tubes (39 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Carolina Paper Tubes has fewer employees than the Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboa median and a higher 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
2020 6.2 3.1 2 0 0
2019 10.9 10.9 5 0 0
2017 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 8.3 2.8 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · NC · Zirconia

140 Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. - Stockton 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elegant Packaging 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. - Las Vegas 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif Inc 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Louisburg 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE B & S Farming, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jeffery C Lee Farms, INC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Farms Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-TCR Hy-Pro Corporation 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UVA Medical Center Fontaine 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Robbins Manufacturing, Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : PBI - West Palm Beach 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Norfolk Terminal 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Port City Brewing Co 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sendik's Support Center 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morningside of Cleveland 39 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: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.