Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard · Indiana

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart

Elkhart, IN · ~127 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade F.

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart: 7.8 TCR = 238% of Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart safety composite

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

−5.2

2016→2021

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart injury rate improved

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart's TCR fell 5.2 from 10.9 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.9 · 2017=15.0 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · Elkhart, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 238% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Seaboard Folding Box
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seaboard Folding Box (0.2 TCR gap)

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Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart averages 7.8 TCR (238% of the Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart TCR series: 2016=10.9 · 2017=15 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart falls in its industry

205 Cartons, folding (except milk) establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Cartons, folding (except milk) employers in Indiana.

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart (127 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart
Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart (127 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart has fewer employees than the Cartons, folding (except milk), made fro 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
2021 5.7 5.7 4 5 0
2020 2.6 1.3 4 0 0
2019 8.2 5.5 10 2 0
2018 4.7 4.7 7 0 0
2017 15.0 10.7 18 3 0
2016 10.9 8.0 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · IN · Elkhart

205 Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, IN · 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 Seaboard Folding Box 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Box Division 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Impressions Inc 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterling Packaging, LLC 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mel-Kay Electric Company Inc. 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louis Dreyfus Company - Claypool 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE LSC Communications Digital 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pinnacle Oil Holdings, LLC - Plant 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR HCR Home Care 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Alliance Plumbing 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR D.P. Sawyer, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascade Paper Converters 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corteva Constantine CON1 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Milford Public Schools Sarah Noble 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davis Landscape LTD NC Office 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turlock, CA 127 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.