Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard · Illinois

Chicago Mailing Tube Co.

Chicago, IL · ~52 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chicago Mailing Tube Co. runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Chicago Mailing Tube Co.: 1.2 TCR = 35% of Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chicago Mailing Tube Co. safety composite

Chicago Mailing Tube Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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 Mailing Tube Co.: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

Chicago Mailing Tube Co.'s TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 35% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO MINERVA TUBE PLANT
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MINERVA TUBE PLANT (0.1 TCR gap)

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Chicago Mailing Tube Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chicago Mailing Tube Co. averages 1.2 TCR (35% of the Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Chicago Mailing Tube Co. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Chicago Mailing Tube Co. falls in its industry

140 Bobbins, fiber, made from purc establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Bobbins, fiber, made from purc employers in Illinois.

Chicago Mailing Tube Co. (52 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 Chicago Mailing Tube Co.
Chicago Mailing Tube Co. (52 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Chicago Mailing Tube Co. has fewer employees than the Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased pape median and a lower 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
2024 5.2 1.3 4 0 0
2023 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · IL · Chicago

140 Bobbins, fiber, 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 MINERVA TUBE PLANT 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif Inc. (Bay Minette Tube Plant) 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caraustar Okemah, OK 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curative Health Cultivation LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2502-Ashton, IL (Monsanto Co.) 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sauget 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1240-Monmouth, IL (Monsanto Co.) 52 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 Mannington Price Cutter 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Scottys III - Brenner Way 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sellin Brothers, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Texas Refinery Corp 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Concord General Contracting, Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wom - Bop 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kasco Structures LLC 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE OSI Electronics 52 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.