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

Northgate

Flint, MI · ~311 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northgate runs at 110% 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.

Northgate: 3.6 TCR = 110% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northgate safety composite

Northgate scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.61 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

−2.8

2016→2024

Northgate injury rate improved

Northgate's TCR fell 2.8 from 5.0 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.0 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Flint, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 110% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #33/60
  • PHOTO DanHil Brownwood
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~311 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DanHil Brownwood (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northgate in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northgate averages 3.6 TCR (110% 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

Northgate TCR series: 2016=5 · 2021=4 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Northgate falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 60 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Michigan.

Northgate (311 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 0100200300400 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Northgate
Northgate (311 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Northgate 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
2024 2.1 0.6 6 1 0
2023 3.5 2.3 9 0 0
2022 3.5 1.6 9 0 0
2021 4.0 1.2 10 0 0
2016 5.0 4.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MI · Flint

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 260 employers in Flint, MI · 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 DanHil Brownwood 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAPP Reading - 014 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Independence Corrugated LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX310 Denton (Classic Corrugated) 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Meijer 229 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1771 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE Troy - Research, Test and Development (We do not manufacture) 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAHLE Behr USA 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR GM Flint Truck Assembly 5,164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flint Assembly 3,920 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hurley Medical Center 2,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLaren Flint 2,477 FTE
NAT-TCR Dundee Middle School 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Habitat for Humanity, Ventura County, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Capitol Construction Services, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ECD Services, Inc. - Bldg 2 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valdez Painting, Inc. 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edwards Interiors 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE Koetter Woodworking Inc 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE Element Biosciences 311 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, 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.