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

NAPP Lowell

Lowell, MA · ~132 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NAPP Lowell runs at 211% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade F.

NAPP Lowell: 7.0 TCR = 211% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NAPP Lowell safety composite

NAPP Lowell scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

NAPP Lowell: 5.0 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2018

NAPP Lowell's TCR rose 7.1 from 5.0 in 2016 to 12.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Lowell, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 211% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #17/21
  • PHOTO GA084 McDonough Mail…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GA084 McDonough Mailers (0.0 TCR gap)

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NAPP Lowell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NAPP Lowell averages 7.0 TCR (211% 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

NAPP Lowell TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=12.1 · BLS 3.3

Where NAPP Lowell falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 21 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Massachusetts.

NAPP Lowell (132 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate NAPP Lowell
NAPP Lowell (132 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

NAPP Lowell has more 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
2018 12.1 7.6 11 5 0
2017 3.8 3.8 4 0 0
2016 5.0 2.5 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MA · Lowell

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 81 employers in Lowell, MA · 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 GA084 McDonough Mailers 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NorthStar Sheets 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RDA CONTAINER CORPORATION 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kittrich Corporation 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Comalli Group, Inc. 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agri-Mark, Inc. 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worcester Envelope Company 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint- Gobain 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell General Hospital 2,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pathfinder 1,082 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell General Hospital Saints 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR Macom Technology Solutions 507 FTE
NAT-TCR Washington N and R LLC dba Grandview Healthcare 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AMC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NW Arkansas Rehab Hospital 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RMA Waller 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5472-Swy 0035 4205 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Section 21 - Charlotte, NC 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Section 31 - Indianapolis, IN 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis (Mnbla) 132 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: 2018, 2017, 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.