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

Liberty Packaging, Chicago

Melrose Park, IL · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Liberty Packaging, Chicago runs at 197% 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.

Liberty Packaging, Chicago: 6.5 TCR = 197% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Liberty Packaging, Chicago safety composite

Liberty Packaging, Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Liberty Packaging, Chicago: 3.8 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Liberty Packaging, Chicago's TCR rose 4.8 from 3.8 in 2022 to 8.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Melrose Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 197% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #84/86
  • PHOTO GoldenCorr Sheets, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GoldenCorr Sheets, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Liberty Packaging, Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Liberty Packaging, Chicago averages 6.5 TCR (197% 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

Liberty Packaging, Chicago TCR series: 2022=3.8 · 2023=7 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Liberty Packaging, Chicago falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #84 safest of 86 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Illinois.

Liberty Packaging, Chicago (42 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Liberty Packaging, Chicago
Liberty Packaging, Chicago (42 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Liberty Packaging, Chicago has fewer 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 8.7 5.8 3 0 0
2023 7.0 2.3 3 0 0
2022 3.8 1.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IL · Melrose Park

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 96 employers in Melrose Park, 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 GoldenCorr Sheets, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Packaging 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR E. SMITH BOX, INC. 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPP Brea 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Pontiac, IL 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterman, IL-R&D 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield IL 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Egyptian Electric Cooperative 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jewel Distribution DC 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-06651 FAC-06651-MELROSE PARK-IL 1,106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gottlieb Memorial Hospital 923 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC - Ruby Street Plant 714 FTE
NAT-TCR Naples Packing House 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Toth Construction 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Jefferson House 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR R.B. Owens Electric, Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Endur Contractors, LLC 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cranberry 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midway 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spinal Technology, LLC 42 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.