Printing, flexographic (except books, grey goods) · Illinois

Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC)

Granite City, IL · ~103 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Printing, flexographic (except books, grey goods) workplace, earning a grade A.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
5
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC)'s OSHA Total Case Rate of 1.6 to the Printing, flexographic (except books, grey goods) BLS benchmark of 3.3 (49% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC)'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

01234 201920202022 0.93.3 Industry benchmarkGranite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 323111.

Where Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) falls in its industry

2,259 Printing, flexographic (except establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 159 Printing, flexographic (except employers in Illinois.

Trend analysis for Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC)

Between 2019 and 2022, Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC)'s Total Case Rate improved from 3.1 to 0.9 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 71% decrease across 3 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 0.9, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 3.1, a spread of 2.2 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 3 reporting years, Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) recorded 5 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 5 injuries shown on this page for Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 323111 - Printing, flexographic (except books, grey goods).

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2022)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 225,671 hours worked = 0.89 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) (this establishment) 1.63 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg
Commercial flexographic printing (except books) industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 323111
Illinois state avg (all industries) 4.73 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2020 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.1 2.1 3 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC)'s reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Printing, flexographic (except books, grey goods) peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 49% of the Printing, flexographic (except books, grey goods) benchmark, Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Printing, flexographic (except books, grey goods) sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC)'s safety grade?
Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) has a safety grade of A (Excellent Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 1.6 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Printing, flexographic (except books, grey goods).
How many injuries has Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) reported?
Granite City (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) has reported 5 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 3 years of OSHA data (2022, 2020, 2019). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2022, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.