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

Kelly Box & Packaging

Fort Wayne, IN · ~226 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Kelly Box & Packaging runs at 155% 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.

Kelly Box & Packaging: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kelly Box & Packaging safety composite

Kelly Box & Packaging 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.47 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

Kelly Box & Packaging: 4.9 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

Kelly Box & Packaging's TCR rose 2.6 from 4.9 in 2021 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Fort Wayne, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #60/67
  • PHOTO NexGen Container LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NexGen Container LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Indiana employers → · Look up another →

Kelly Box & Packaging in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kelly Box & Packaging averages 5.1 TCR (155% 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

Kelly Box & Packaging TCR series: 2021=4.9 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=2 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Kelly Box & Packaging falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 67 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Indiana.

Kelly Box & Packaging (226 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Kelly Box & Packaging
Kelly Box & Packaging (226 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Kelly Box & Packaging has more 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
2024 7.5 4.5 15 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 4 0 0
2022 6.1 4.9 15 0 0
2021 4.9 3.1 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IN · Fort Wayne

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, IN · 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 NexGen Container LLC 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WI050 Sheboygan Container 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michcor Container 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rusken Packaging Jackson TN 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE FKCI Midwest Offfice 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tate & Lyle, Lafayette South 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE NISCO-Fort Wayne 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone RV Plant 311 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DFL5 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ISC-Cargo Clean LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - SAV 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - LAX 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Best Dressed Chicken, Inc. 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - LAS8 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DOK2 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - WMO2 226 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.