Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills · North Carolina

Evergreen Packaging - Canton

Canton, NC · ~967 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Evergreen Packaging - Canton runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Evergreen Packaging - Canton: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Evergreen Packaging - Canton safety composite

Evergreen Packaging - Canton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Evergreen Packaging - Canton: 0.5 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2023

Evergreen Packaging - Canton's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.5 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Canton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO SCC Converting Center
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 105 inj
  • SIZE ~967 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SCC Converting Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Evergreen Packaging - Canton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Evergreen Packaging - Canton averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills BLS benchmark).

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

Evergreen Packaging - Canton TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=2 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Evergreen Packaging - Canton falls in its industry

317 Groundwood paper, coated, made establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Groundwood paper, coated, made employers in North Carolina.

Evergreen Packaging - Canton (967 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Evergreen Packaging - Canton
Evergreen Packaging - Canton (967 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Evergreen Packaging - Canton has more employees than the Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper median and a lower 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
2023 1.8 0.5 8 0 0
2022 1.9 1.0 19 0 0
2021 2.0 1.3 19 1 0
2020 3.6 1.9 35 0 0
2019 0.6 0.3 6 0 0
2018 0.7 0.3 5 2 0
2017 0.9 0.1 8 0 0
2016 0.5 0.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · NC · Canton

317 Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 16 employers in Canton, NC · 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 SCC Converting Center 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fullerton Mill 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pixelle Speciality Solutions LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimberly- Clark Jenks 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Goldsboro Processing Plant 967 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
STATE-SIZE County of Wayne - All 966 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Greensboro Water Resources 966 FTE
CITY-NEAR Canton, NC 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR ConMet Canton 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 055 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Silver Bluff, LLC 167 FTE
NAT-TCR Truck Equipment Service Company 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Questek Mfg Corp 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Naturewalk 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pregis- Pomona 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. David's Round Rock Medical Center Hospital 967 FTE
NAT-SIZE CB Harvesting 967 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) 967 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doyle Security Services 967 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: 2023, 2022, 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.