Corrugated Box Mfg · Illinois

Hood Container Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~284 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hood Container Chicago runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Corrugated Box Mfg workplace, earning a grade A.

Hood Container Chicago: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Corrugated Box Mfg BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hood Container Chicago safety composite

Hood Container Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% 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 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

Hood Container Chicago held a steady TCR band

Hood Container Chicago's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.5 in 2022 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.5 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #18/86
  • PHOTO ARLINGTON, TX
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~284 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ARLINGTON, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hood Container Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hood Container Chicago averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Corrugated Box Mfg BLS benchmark).

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

Hood Container Chicago TCR series: 2022=1.5 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hood Container Chicago falls in its industry

1,338 Corrugated Box Mfg establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 86 Corrugated Box Mfg employers in Illinois.

Hood Container Chicago (284 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Hood Container Chicago
Hood Container Chicago (284 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Hood Container Chicago has more employees than the Corrugated Box Mfg 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
2024 1.4 0.4 4 0 0
2023 1.5 0.3 3 2 0
2022 1.5 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IL · Chicago

1,338 Corrugated Box Mfg employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 ARLINGTON, TX 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hood Container Houston 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt (Love Box) LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Packaging, LLC- LOUDC 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Avon LLC - Morton Grove 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE Justrite Manufacturing 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Deere Cylinder Div. - Moline 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2967-IL154 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Hood Container Houston 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Steinhatchee Marina at Dead Man's Bay LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 403016-Peterborough | NH | LON-300 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Casting and Manufacturing Corporation 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carvana Bessemer 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Shintech-Plaquemine 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE DecoPac, Inc. 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Box Logistics 284 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.