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

International paper, Northlake, IL

Northlake, IL · ~93 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

International paper, Northlake, IL runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

International paper, Northlake, IL: 5.7 TCR = 171% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

International paper, Northlake, IL safety composite

International paper, Northlake, IL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

International paper, Northlake, IL held a steady TCR band

International paper, Northlake, IL's TCR held near 0.3 from 7.2 in 2017 to 7.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.2 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Northlake, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 171% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #81/86
  • PHOTO Partitions Plus Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Partitions Plus Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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International paper, Northlake, IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows International paper, Northlake, IL averages 5.7 TCR (171% 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

International paper, Northlake, IL TCR series: 2017=7.2 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where International paper, Northlake, IL falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #81 safest of 86 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Illinois.

International paper, Northlake, IL (93 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate International paper, Northlake, IL
International paper, Northlake, IL (93 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

International paper, Northlake, IL has fewer employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a higher 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
2020 7.5 6.4 7 0 0
2019 4.2 4.2 4 0 0
2018 3.8 2.8 4 0 0
2017 7.2 3.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IL · Northlake

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 56 employers in Northlake, 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 Partitions Plus Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sustainable Corrugated Dalton 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing General Industry 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Viking Paper Corp. 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE ILAWC Interurban 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, LaSalle Station 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinney Contractors Inc 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tecta America 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL - Northlake 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Support 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARYZTA - Northlake 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group 403 FTE
NAT-TCR Tft #565 Salem Nh 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aultman Main Campus 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Midstate Reclamation, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elizabeth River Recycling LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Columns Community Care Center 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snap-on Tools, Elkmont Manufacturing 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE NB 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Deere Reman Springfield - Hwy 125 Strafford 93 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.