Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Illinois

Kalle Group USA

Gurnee, IL · ~139 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kalle Group USA runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kalle Group USA: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kalle Group USA safety composite

Kalle Group USA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Kalle Group USA: 1.8 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

Kalle Group USA's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.8 in 2019 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Gurnee, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #18/32
  • PHOTO Meriden Novolex Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meriden Novolex Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kalle Group USA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kalle Group USA averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kalle Group USA TCR series: 2019=1.8 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kalle Group USA falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 32 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Illinois.

Kalle Group USA (139 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kalle Group USA
Kalle Group USA (139 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Kalle Group USA has more employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 2.2 2.2 3 0 0
2023 5.4 5.4 8 0 0
2019 1.8 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · IL · Gurnee

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 91 employers in Gurnee, 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 Meriden Novolex Plant 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Intertape Polymer Group 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mondi Bags USA, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Web-Cote Industries 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmer City, IL 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE RWE Renewables Services LLC-Wind Chicago 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advocate construction Inc 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Althoff Industries, Inc. 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARDx Gurnee J54 2,661 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Wolf Lodge Illinois 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukegan 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1668 339 FTE
NAT-TCR UMMC Mayo Building 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Medical Management 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Paw Materials Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wayne County Airport Authority 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ohchi - Chillicothe 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inver - Versailles 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metrex Corporation 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weldmac Manufacturing Company 139 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, 2019. 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.