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

Hoerner Boxes Inc

Tupelo, MS · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hoerner Boxes Inc runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

Hoerner Boxes Inc: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hoerner Boxes Inc safety composite

Hoerner Boxes Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−4.1

2018→2021

Hoerner Boxes Inc injury rate improved

Hoerner Boxes Inc's TCR fell 4.1 from 4.1 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.1 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Tupelo, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/21
  • PHOTO International Paper …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper - Manitowoc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hoerner Boxes Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hoerner Boxes Inc averages 2.0 TCR (62% 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

Hoerner Boxes Inc TCR series: 2018=4.1 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Hoerner Boxes Inc falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 21 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Mississippi.

Hoerner Boxes Inc (26 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Hoerner Boxes Inc
Hoerner Boxes Inc (26 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Hoerner Boxes Inc has fewer employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a lower 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.1 4.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MS · Tupelo

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 144 employers in Tupelo, MS · 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 International Paper - Manitowoc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper Waterloo Container 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Indy triPAQ 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Athens Sheet Feeder 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1521 S FRONTAGE RD COLUMBUS MS 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Constuction 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Construction,L.L.C. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ergon Construction Group - ISO Services Richland 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Mississippi Medical Center 5,727 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) 1,416 FTE
CITY-NEAR JESCO, Inc. 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tupelo Operations 393 FTE
NAT-TCR Hillsides - 149 Pasadena FRC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1915-6400X 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Value Village-123hawt 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sulphur Division 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nulab Inc 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE TMEC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Employment Options 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charles Park 26 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, 2018. 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.