Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and paperboard, made from purchased paperboard · Illinois

Chicago GPP

Chicago, IL · ~47 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago GPP runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and paperboard, made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

Chicago GPP: 2.3 TCR = 70% of Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and paperboard, made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago GPP safety composite

Chicago GPP scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Chicago GPP: 0.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.29× in 2024

Chicago GPP's TCR rose 5.3 from 0.0 in 2020 to 5.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 70% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #43/86
  • PHOTO Abbott Action Canton
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Abbott Action Canton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chicago GPP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago GPP averages 2.3 TCR (70% of the Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and paperboard, made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago GPP TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=1.6 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago GPP falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, shipping, laminated pap establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 86 Boxes, shipping, laminated pap employers in Illinois.

Chicago GPP (47 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Chicago GPP
Chicago GPP (47 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Chicago GPP has fewer employees than the Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and pap median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 5.3 5.3 3 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IL · Chicago

1,338 Boxes, shipping, laminated paper and paperboard, made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Abbott Action Canton 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper Crawfordsville 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abbott Action Norwood 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL (Monsanto Co.) 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-Mfg 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Power, Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Decatur 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR EMSI, Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Abaco Drilling Technologies 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Oaks Health & Rehab 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Augusta IGA #655 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pinson Valley Heat Treating Company Inc. 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE NRC NY Environmental Services - Massena 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Algin Sutton Maintenance 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 259-NiSource-Springfield OH 47 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.