Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard · Minnesota

Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc.

Albert Lea, MN · ~182 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc.: 1.8 TCR = 56% of Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. safety composite

Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−4.1

2017→2024

Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. injury rate improved

Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.1 from 4.7 in 2017 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.7 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Albert Lea, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #14/30
  • PHOTO Menasha Packaging Co…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Menasha Packaging Company - Hartford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. averages 1.8 TCR (56% of the Corrugated and solid fiber boxes 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

Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. falls in its industry

1,338 Corrugated and solid fiber box establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 30 Corrugated and solid fiber box employers in Minnesota.

Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. (182 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc.
Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. (182 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. has more employees than the Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made fr median and a lower 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 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2023 2.2 1.7 4 0 0
2022 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 2.4 1.2 4 0 0
2019 1.9 1.3 3 0 0
2018 1.8 0.0 1 2 0
2017 4.7 1.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MN · Albert Lea

1,338 Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 93 employers in Albert Lea, 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 Menasha Packaging Company - Hartford 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTH GATE, CA 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jamesburg - D014 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abbott-Action, Inc 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gilbert Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Form A Feed Stewart 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Print and Visual Impressions - Byron MN - 0223-MNBY1 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hayfield Window and Door 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lou-Rich Front Street 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1020 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1020 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Branch 3214 - WP Campbell CA 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Abbott-Action, Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Outreach 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Island Acoustics, LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stingray Pressure Pumping -Belmont,Ohio 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newport Medical Center 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1040 - Vista North University Drive 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1041 - Richmond Midlothian Tpke 182 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, 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.