Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Joshen Paper & Packaging

Cuyahoga Heights, OH · ~167 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joshen Paper & Packaging runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Joshen Paper & Packaging: 3.9 TCR = 179% of Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joshen Paper & Packaging safety composite

Joshen Paper & Packaging scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−4.6

2016→2019

Joshen Paper & Packaging injury rate improved

Joshen Paper & Packaging's TCR fell 4.6 from 6.5 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Cuyahoga Heights, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #17/25
  • PHOTO Shelby Group Interna…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shelby Group International, Inc. (Piperton) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joshen Paper & Packaging in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joshen Paper & Packaging averages 3.9 TCR (179% of the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Joshen Paper & Packaging TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Joshen Paper & Packaging falls in its industry

290 Bags, paper and disposable pla establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 25 Bags, paper and disposable pla employers in Ohio.

Joshen Paper & Packaging (167 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Joshen Paper & Packaging
Joshen Paper & Packaging (167 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Joshen Paper & Packaging has more employees than the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2018 3.3 2.0 5 0 0
2017 4.1 1.4 6 0 0
2016 6.5 1.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · OH · Cuyahoga Heights

290 Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 14 employers in Cuyahoga Heights, OH · 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 Shelby Group International, Inc. (Piperton) 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunzl Distribution Southwest, LP (DBA Bunzl Houston) 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5849 Jacksonville FL 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunzl York 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decker Construction Company 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Land O'Lakes - Kent, Ohio 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solon OH 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Envelope 1 Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charter Steel- Cleveland 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charter Steel - Cleveland 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nook Industries 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Worthington Steel Cleveland 144 FTE
NAT-TCR Sms 1585 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR GLc Brandywine 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR A.W. Farrell & Son, Inc. - Corporate Total 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Xcelerated Transportation Group LLC dba Xcelerated Transport 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Tenet Children'S Hospital Mi E 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakewood Facility 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Figueroa Plaza 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Resort Services Inc. 167 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.