Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard · Minnesota

Mankato Packaging

North Mankato, MN · ~21 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mankato Packaging runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Mankato Packaging: 5.5 TCR = 167% of Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mankato Packaging safety composite

Mankato Packaging scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Mankato Packaging: 5.2 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2022

Mankato Packaging's TCR rose 1.2 from 5.2 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · North Mankato, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 167% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Impressions Incorpor…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Impressions Incorporated-Hutchinson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mankato Packaging in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mankato Packaging averages 5.5 TCR (167% of the Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Mankato Packaging TCR series: 2017=5.2 · 2018=10.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Mankato Packaging falls in its industry

205 Boxes, folding (except corruga establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Boxes, folding (except corruga employers in Minnesota.

Mankato Packaging (21 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mankato Packaging
Mankato Packaging (21 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Mankato Packaging has fewer employees than the Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2022 6.4 6.4 1 0 0
2021 10.6 10.6 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 10.8 10.8 2 0 0
2017 5.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · MN · North Mankato

205 Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 57 employers in North Mankato, MN · 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 Impressions Incorporated-Hutchinson 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hub Folding Box Company Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 154_403 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accord Carton Co. 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Winthrop Agronomy 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donahues Greenhouse 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE M7 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNLOG-SEL-SEL MN LOGISTICS' 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR FUN.com Inc 776 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Occasions Group Inc. - 0156-MNNO3 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Occasions Group - MN - 0156 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Graphics Commercial - 0027-MNNO10 349 FTE
NAT-TCR Bailey Bridge (#25) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Capitol Steel Fabricators, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dillon's Bus Service 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago (ORD) 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Leon Valley 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheedy Fabrications 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Ignatius High School 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE UC Lab Schools 21 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.