Packaging material merchant wholesalers · South Carolina

IPS Packaging

Fountain Inn, SC · ~181 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IPS Packaging runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Packaging material merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

IPS Packaging: 2.0 TCR = 92% of Packaging material merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IPS Packaging safety composite

IPS Packaging scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−0.8

2017→2022

IPS Packaging injury rate improved

IPS Packaging's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.9 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.9 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=5.5 · 2022=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Fountain Inn, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO MIHUD
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MIHUD (0.0 TCR gap)

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IPS Packaging in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IPS Packaging averages 2.0 TCR (92% of the Packaging material merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

IPS Packaging TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=5.5 · 2022=1.1 · BLS 2.2

Where IPS Packaging falls in its industry

589 Packaging material merchant wh establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 12 Packaging material merchant wh employers in South Carolina.

IPS Packaging (181 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate IPS Packaging
IPS Packaging (181 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

IPS Packaging has more employees than the Packaging material merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2020 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2019 1.6 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.9 0.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · SC · Fountain Inn

589 Packaging material merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 42 employers in Fountain Inn, SC · 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 MIHUD 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hub Industries 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branham - Pasadena 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KIT Hudson Valley DC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Owens Corning - Aiken 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hitachi Rail STS Batesburg, SC 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kyocera AVX Components Corporation 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE 425 Columbia 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bosch Rexroth FniP 957 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC/FniP Fountain Inn 900 FTE
CITY-NEAR AVX Corporation 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fountain Inn 655 FTE
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0461 The Schwan Food Company - Pasadena 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ISD 191 Edward Neill Elementary 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Public Library 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 982 - Stevens Point 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paramount Meadows Nursing Center DBA Affinity Healthcare Center 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03178 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-00058 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-SWY-0019-0019-01713 181 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.