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

Midwest Container Corporation

Name: Midwest Container Corporation Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Fairfield, OH · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Midwest Container Corporation runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

Midwest Container Corporation: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Container Corporation safety composite

Midwest Container Corporation 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).

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.54 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

Midwest Container Corporation: 0.0 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2021

Midwest Container Corporation's TCR rose 6.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Fairfield, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

DART 6.5 DART
RANK #79/109
PHOTO Weber Display and Pa…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Weber Display and Packaging (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.3

What this shows Midwest Container Corporation averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

Midwest Container Corporation TCR series: 2017=0 · 2021=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Midwest Container Corporation falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 109 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Ohio.

Midwest Container Corporation (31 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Midwest Container Corporation 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
2021	6.5	6.5	2	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · OH · Fairfield

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 148 employers in Fairfield, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Weber Display and Packaging	PHILADELPHIA, PA	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	International Paper Newark Box	NEWARK, OH	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	WA050 Olympia Container	OLYMPIA, WA	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Great Northern Corporation - Chippewa Falls Eau Claire	EAU CLAIRE, WI	3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Farm	CINCINNATI	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pine Valley Ranch	SPENCERVILLE	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Trillium Farms Layer 5	MT VICTORY	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Trillium Farms Croton Pullet 3	CROTON	31 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital	Fairfield	1,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fairfield Hospital	Fairfield	1,513 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Hospital Fairfield	Fairfield	1,494 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Koch Foods	Fairfield	1,275 FTE
NAT-TCR	Urban Chestnut Brewing Company	St. Louis, MO	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	United Visual Branding	Oldsmar, FL	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Omni Grove Park Inn	Asheville, NC	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Parks & Recreation	Maplewood, MN	3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Calais Store	Calais, ME	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Concentric 1575	Saginaw, MI	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tru-Fit, LLC	Waverly, TN	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	East Haven Public Works	East Haven, CT	31 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: 2021, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.