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

Liberty Packaging, Poway

Poway, CA · ~89 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Liberty Packaging, Poway runs at 152% 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, Poway: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Liberty Packaging, Poway safety composite

Liberty Packaging, Poway scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−1.3

2023→2024

Liberty Packaging, Poway injury rate improved

Liberty Packaging, Poway's TCR fell 1.3 from 5.7 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.7 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Poway, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #93/111
  • PHOTO JESSUP, MD (Baltimore)
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JESSUP, MD (Baltimore) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Liberty Packaging, Poway in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Liberty Packaging, Poway averages 5.0 TCR (152% 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, Poway TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Liberty Packaging, Poway 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 California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #93 safest of 111 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in California.

Liberty Packaging, Poway (89 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Liberty Packaging, Poway
Liberty Packaging, Poway (89 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Liberty Packaging, Poway 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 4.4 3.3 3 1 0
2023 5.7 3.4 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · CA · Poway

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 143 employers in Poway, CA · 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 JESSUP, MD (Baltimore) 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IP Omaha 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Green, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kentwood Packaging Corp 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bud of California Broccoli 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE GMI - CA 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ramona 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Booth Ranches LLC-BR1 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus 4,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geneal Atomics Facilities and Support Groups 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Poway 889 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics - Poway - A15 661 FTE
NAT-TCR American Mussel Harvesters Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Prl Industries, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Leander Construction Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Creekside at Elfindale 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Bayshore 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kelly Generator & Equipment, Inc. 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Hca Rio Grande Regional 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huhtamaki, Inc. 89 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.