Paperboard products (e.g., containers) made in paperboard mills · Washington

Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard

Tacoma, WA · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paperboard products (e.g., containers) made in paperboard mills workplace, earning a grade C.

Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard: 3.3 TCR = 101% of Paperboard products (e.g., containers) made in paperboard mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard safety composite

Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard: 2.9 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2022

Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.9 in 2019 to 3.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322130 · Tacoma, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 101% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK P32
  • PHOTO Paperboard Mill
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paperboard Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard averages 3.3 TCR (101% of the Paperboard products (e.g., containers) made in paperboard mills BLS benchmark).

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

Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard TCR series: 2019=2.9 · 2020=3.4 · 2022=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard falls in its industry

181 Paperboard products (e.g., con establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard (53 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard
Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard (53 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Greif / Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard has fewer employees than the Paperboard products (e.g., containers) m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2022 3.7 2.5 3 0 0
2020 3.4 2.2 3 0 0
2019 2.9 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · WA · Tacoma

181 Paperboard products (e.g., containers) made in paperboard mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 445 employers in Tacoma, WA · 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 Paperboard Mill 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mobile Paperboard 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt Industries (Robert Mann Packaging) LLC - Oceanside 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Gypsum Otsego 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Doornink Fruit Ranch, Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunray Farms LLC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marcus J. Griggs Orchards 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&C Farms LLC 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
NAT-TCR Genacross Napoleon Campus 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR John Deere Cylinder Div. - Moline 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Haven at Peace Village 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kontoor Brands Hackleburg 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG666 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Age Care Center 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG190 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9123-Cvg-Primeflight Aviation Services, Inc. 53 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: 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.