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

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest

Lake Forest, IL · ~97 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest safety composite

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest: 1.4 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2020

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest's TCR rose 5.6 from 1.4 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · Lake Forest, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #15/17
  • PHOTO Royal Paper Box Co.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Royal Paper Box Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest averages 4.8 TCR (146% 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 - Lake Forest TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=6.4 · 2018=5 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=7 · BLS 3.3

Where Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest falls in its industry

205 Cartons, folding (except milk) establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #15 safest of 17 Cartons, folding (except milk) employers in Illinois.

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest (97 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 - Lake Forest
Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest (97 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest 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
2020 7.0 7.0 3 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 5 0 0
2018 5.0 2.8 7 0 0
2017 6.4 4.3 9 0 0
2016 1.4 0.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · IL · Lake Forest

205 Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 50 employers in Lake Forest, 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 Royal Paper Box Co. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boutwell Packaging Inc 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HSM Packaging 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thoro Packaging 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ieso LLC 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fox Metro Water Reclamation District 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE pan oceanic engineering 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.I.V 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR US - Corporate : 0G01 2,455 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0G01 - CORP LAKE FOREST, IL 2,187 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL 1,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0G11 - CORP LAKE FOREST, IL 1,044 FTE
NAT-TCR Southwestern Healthcare 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bayfront Health Spring Hill 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Built-Well Construction Co 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Color Web Printers 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE South Lyon Senior Care and Rehabilitation Center 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heeter 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cortec Corporation 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE US AutoForce Kimberly 97 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, 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.