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

Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company

Cowpens, SC · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company safety composite

Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2024

Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Cowpens, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #13/23
  • PHOTO International Paper
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company averages 2.4 TCR (73% 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

Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 23 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in South Carolina.

Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company (38 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company
Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company (38 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Nelson Packaging, A Rusken Company 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
2024 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 4.7 2.4 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · SC · Cowpens

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Cowpens, SC · 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 International Paper 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Carton - Texas 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4327 Springfield Sheet Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleveland Container 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Anderson 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Titan Orchard Management 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOREROOM OPERATIONS CENTER 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fleet/Radio (Columbia) 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC11 DC11 COWPENS SC 1,195 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC11 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cowpens - 600 Webber Road 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mermet 170 FTE
NAT-TCR The Comfort Group, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR D&M Consultants 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR D & S Machine Service, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2773 Farmington Hills 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stykemain Chevrolet LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE TRG GenCorr LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyatt House Bellevue 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyatt House King of Prussia 38 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. 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.