Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard · Illinois

Cartoncraft, Inc

Saint Charles, IL · ~139 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cartoncraft, Inc runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

Cartoncraft, Inc: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cartoncraft, Inc safety composite

Cartoncraft, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−3.0

2018→2024

Cartoncraft, Inc injury rate improved

Cartoncraft, Inc's TCR fell 3.0 from 4.8 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.8 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=4.1 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · Saint Charles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #12/17
  • PHOTO American Carton
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Carton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cartoncraft, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cartoncraft, Inc averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the Boxes, folding (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

Cartoncraft, Inc TCR series: 2018=4.8 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=4.1 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Cartoncraft, Inc falls in its industry

205 Boxes, folding (except corruga establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 17 Boxes, folding (except corruga employers in Illinois.

Cartoncraft, Inc (139 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Cartoncraft, Inc
Cartoncraft, Inc (139 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Cartoncraft, Inc has more employees than the Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made median and a higher 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
2024 1.8 0.6 3 0 0
2023 2.9 1.2 5 0 0
2021 4.1 2.3 7 0 0
2020 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2019 3.6 0.0 4 0 0
2018 4.8 0.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · IL · Saint Charles

205 Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 25 employers in Saint Charles, IL · 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 American Carton 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lancaster TX 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foodservice : STOCKTON-QANTAS 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huhtamaki, Inc 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmer City, IL 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE RWE Renewables Services LLC-Wind Chicago 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advocate construction Inc 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Althoff Industries, Inc. 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR WISE PLASTICS TECHNOLOGIES INC 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meijer Store 182 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1898 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1898 244 FTE
NAT-TCR Le Bleu Corporation 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Action Cargo Transport 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brent Industries, Incorporated 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rand Graphics - Hoover 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE LifeBrite Community Hospital of Stokes 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dean's Pest Control, Inc 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Max J. Kuney Company 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Microline Surgical, Inc. 139 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.