Paperboard mills · Washington

Greif - Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard

Tacoma, WA · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Greif - Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paperboard mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Greif - Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Paperboard mills BLS 3.3 · 2y 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 total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2021→2022

Greif - Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard injury rate improved

Greif - Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard's TCR fell 1.8 from 5.5 in 2021 to 3.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.5 · 2022=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK P16
  • PHOTO Ohio Paperboard
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ohio Paperboard (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 4.6 TCR (139% of the 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: 2021=5.5 · 2022=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Greif - Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard falls in its industry

181 Paperboard mills establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Greif - Caraustar Tacoma Paperboard (54 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 (54 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 mills 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
2021 5.5 3.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · WA · Tacoma

181 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 Ohio Paperboard 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt Industries (Target Container) , Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ox Aurora, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cal Sheets, LLC 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seneca Foods, Dayton, WA Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fallout 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Briarwood Farms 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE FV Frontier Explorer 54 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 Volunteer Pastilles, LLC Dayton Plant 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kerry Greenville 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR EB Display 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR IGPS Naperville 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shakopee 8000 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG297 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aero Transportation Products, Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE HOP Corporate 54 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.