Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard · Massachusetts

IPG Chicopee

Chicopee, MA · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IPG Chicopee runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

IPG Chicopee: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IPG Chicopee safety composite

IPG Chicopee scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

IPG Chicopee: 0.0 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.56× in 2019

IPG Chicopee's TCR rose 6.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Chicopee, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Duerr Packaging Co.,…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Duerr Packaging Co., Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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IPG Chicopee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IPG Chicopee averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

IPG Chicopee TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where IPG Chicopee falls in its industry

140 Fiber tubes made from purchase establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Fiber tubes made from purchase employers in Massachusetts.

IPG Chicopee (28 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate IPG Chicopee
IPG Chicopee (28 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

IPG Chicopee has fewer employees than the Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2019 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2018 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 6.8 3.4 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · MA · Chicopee

140 Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chicopee, MA · 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 Duerr Packaging Co., Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jonesville HQ 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caraustar Phoenix Tube Plant 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KY042 Lexington Plant & DC (Dixie) 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ocean Spray Carver Receiving Station 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waypoint General Contracting LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masters Touch 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pomeroy & Co., Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR MA-04 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consumer Product Distributors LLC dba J Polep Distribution Services 774 FTE
CITY-NEAR J Polep Distribution Services 686 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5278 526 FTE
NAT-TCR Rockport Plant 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kellerstrass Oil Ogden 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR IPI Offenders 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Co 12 Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parker Majestic 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hamlin ICF 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ottawa Elementary 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stribling Equipment - Little Rock 28 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.