Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard · Kentucky

Franklin Ky Tube Plant

Franklin, KY · ~37 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Franklin Ky Tube Plant runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Franklin Ky Tube Plant: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franklin Ky Tube Plant safety composite

Franklin Ky Tube Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−2.6

2016→2021

Franklin Ky Tube Plant injury rate improved

Franklin Ky Tube Plant's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.6 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Franklin, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Tiffin Assembly Plant
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tiffin Assembly Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Franklin Ky Tube Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Franklin Ky Tube Plant averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Franklin Ky Tube Plant TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Franklin Ky Tube Plant falls in its industry

140 Fiber tubes made from purchase establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Fiber tubes made from purchase employers in Kentucky.

Franklin Ky Tube Plant (37 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Franklin Ky Tube Plant
Franklin Ky Tube Plant (37 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Franklin Ky Tube Plant has fewer employees than the Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2016 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · KY · Franklin

140 Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 62 employers in Franklin, KY · 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 Tiffin Assembly Plant 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR OX Paper Tube MA 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carrollton - D004 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huhtamaki De Soto 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Big Rivers Electric Corporation - ET&S 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE CW Assemblies LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2850 RUSSELLVILLE BOWLING GREEN KY 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ontrac Inc Dba Blitz Builders Inc 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tractor Supply Company Distribution Center 0499 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin Precision Industry, Inc. 562 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global Franklin KY 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global Group 504 FTE
NAT-TCR Colorado C & I 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Country Inn & Suites Abingdon 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hines Wheaton Yard 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Medart - Arnold 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rincon Engineering Corp 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hla Aurora, Ct 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patterson Heating & Air Conditioning 37 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.