Folding boxes (except corrugated) made from purchased paperboard · New York

F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant

Elmira, NY · ~122 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Folding boxes (except corrugated) made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant: 2.3 TCR = 71% of Folding boxes (except corrugated) made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant safety composite

F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−2.2

2022→2024

F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant injury rate improved

F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant's TCR fell 2.2 from 3.2 in 2022 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.2 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · Elmira, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/14
  • PHOTO 2580 McDowell Folding
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2580 McDowell Folding (0.0 TCR gap)

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F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant averages 2.3 TCR (71% of the Folding boxes (except corrugated) made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant TCR series: 2022=3.2 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=1 · BLS 3.3

Where F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant falls in its industry

205 Folding boxes (except corrugat establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 14 Folding boxes (except corrugat employers in New York.

F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant (122 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant
F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant (122 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant has fewer employees than the Folding boxes (except corrugated) made f 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
2024 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.9 1.9 3 0 0
2022 3.2 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · NY · Elmira

205 Folding boxes (except corrugated) made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 88 employers in Elmira, NY · 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 2580 McDowell Folding 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Folding Carton Plant 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR McLean Packaging- Moorestown 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hamel MN 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Garden City NY 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eltech Industries, Inc 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lactalis Heritage Dairy 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4371 North Tonawanda Container 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnot Ogden Medical Center 2,497 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc of Chemung-Schuyler 556 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR DePuy Synthes Horseheads 388 FTE
NAT-TCR System Logistics Corporation 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Service PS 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Equipment Jacksonville 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SA Recycling, Bowling Green-Graham 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE SDB, Inc. (Corporate Office) 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Presbyterian Church 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jasper County 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3Phase Elevator Corp Headquarters 122 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.