Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Iowa

Loparex LLC

Iowa City, IA · ~171 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Loparex LLC runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Loparex LLC: 6.0 TCR = 181% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Loparex LLC safety composite

Loparex LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Loparex LLC: 5.4 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2023

Loparex LLC's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.4 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Iowa City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 181% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Catalina Graphic Films
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Catalina Graphic Films (0.0 TCR gap)

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Loparex LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Loparex LLC averages 6.0 TCR (181% 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

Loparex LLC TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2018=5.2 · 2020=7.2 · 2022=6 · 2023=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Loparex LLC falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Iowa.

Loparex LLC (171 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Loparex LLC
Loparex LLC (171 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Loparex LLC 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
2023 6.0 4.3 10 1 0
2022 6.0 4.2 10 0 0
2020 7.2 4.2 12 0 0
2018 5.2 2.3 9 0 0
2016 5.4 0.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · IA · Iowa City

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 131 employers in Iowa City, IA · 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 Catalina Graphic Films 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amcor Flexibles 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Infinity Specialty Tapes 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACPO 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marzetti Manufacturing Company Altoona 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux City Fabrication Plant 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton IA 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1918-19187610 29,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa City North Dodge (ICND) 940 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8010516-P and G Iowa City 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Iowa City 721 FTE
NAT-TCR JK Hackl Transportation Services, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Griffin Care LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clinton Inn Hotel 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Luminous Neon - Hutchinson 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE US Pipeline 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transportation Drivers #9800 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE API Airtech 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4223-M5000 171 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2018, 2016. 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.