Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard · Illinois

Forest Packaging Corp.

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~50 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forest Packaging Corp. runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Forest Packaging Corp.: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forest Packaging Corp. safety composite

Forest Packaging Corp. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−2.0

2017→2023

Forest Packaging Corp. injury rate improved

Forest Packaging Corp.'s TCR fell 2.0 from 4.0 in 2017 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=9.0 · 2020=6.1 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Elk Grove Village, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #69/86
  • PHOTO Food Packaging : RED…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Food Packaging : RED BLUFF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forest Packaging Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forest Packaging Corp. averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Forest Packaging Corp. TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=9 · 2020=6.1 · 2022=2 · 2023=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Forest Packaging Corp. falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 86 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Illinois.

Forest Packaging Corp. (50 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Forest Packaging Corp.
Forest Packaging Corp. (50 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Forest Packaging Corp. has fewer employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2020 6.1 4.1 2 1 0
2019 9.0 7.2 4 1 0
2018 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2017 4.0 4.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IL · Elk Grove Village

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, 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 Food Packaging : RED BLUFF 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR York Container Company 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NewCorr Packaging, LP 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR U.S. Display Group - California 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Champaign CMI1 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1240-Monmouth, IL 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constellation Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Storage 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR Minneapolis SE Storage-TJ 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Performance Construction Company 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynden Main/C-Store/Farm Store 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-098-Radford ( RK-098 ) 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brenneman Pork, LLLP 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brehmer Mfg. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tooling Specialists Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cambridge Village Associates 50 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.