Cards, die-cut (except office supply) made from purchased paper or paperboard · Indiana

Essex Group 425

Name: Essex Group 425 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Fort Wayne, IN · ~85 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Essex Group 425 runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cards, die-cut (except office supply) made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

Essex Group 425: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Cards, die-cut (except office supply) made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essex Group 425 safety composite

Essex Group 425 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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).

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−1.2

2018→2019

Essex Group 425 injury rate improved

Essex Group 425's TCR fell 1.2 from 2.4 in 2018 to 1.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.4 · 2019=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322299 · Fort Wayne, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

DART 1.2 DART
RANK #5/7
PHOTO Opp - Tubes & Cores …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Opp - Tubes & Cores - C334 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Essex Group 425 averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Cards, die-cut (except office supply) made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

Essex Group 425 TCR series: 2018=2.4 · 2019=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Essex Group 425 falls in its industry

236 Cards, die-cut (except office establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Cards, die-cut (except office employers in Indiana.

Essex Group 425 (85 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Essex Group 425 has more employees than the Cards, die-cut (except office supply) ma median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2019	1.2	1.2	1	0	0
2018	2.4	2.4	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322299 · IN · Fort Wayne

236 Cards, die-cut (except office supply) made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Opp - Tubes & Cores - C334	OPP, AL	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Manchester Industries-Hagerstown	HAGERSTOWN, IN	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	EnviroPAK Corp.	EARTH CITY, MO	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	IATRIC Manufacturing Solutions	MORRISTOWN, TN	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hendricks Power Headquarters	AVON	85 FTE
STATE-SIZE	405-NiSource-South Bend IN-Operating HQ	SOUTH BEND	85 FTE
STATE-SIZE	530-NiSource-Goshen IN-Operating HQ	GOSHEN	85 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fredericks Inc	PENDLETON	85 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Parkview Memorial Hospital	Fort Wayne	6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Parkview North Hospital	Fort Wayne	4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Parkview Corporate Office	Fort Wayne	3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Shambaugh & Son LP	Fort Wayne	3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR	Lafayette Family Cancer Center	Brewer, ME	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Heritage Healthcare	Naples, FL	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	B.O.P. Ram-Block & Iron Rentals, Inc.	Weatherford, OK	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Prevost - Jacksonville, FL	Jacksonville, FL	1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Georgia APG	Austell, GA	85 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Midco Commercial	South Plainfield, NJ	85 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Moscow Building Supply	Moscow, ID	85 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tops 9	Niagara Falls, NY	85 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.