Paperboard mills · Illinois

Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC

Name: Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Pekin, IL · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Paperboard mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC: 7.7 TCR = 233% of Paperboard mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC safety composite

Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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).

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC held a steady TCR band

Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC's TCR held near 0.3 from 7.5 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.5 · 2017=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322130 · Pekin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 233% of ind

DART 7.8 DART
RANK #5/7
PHOTO OX Paperboard Halltown
BOOK 2y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OX Paperboard Halltown (0.1 TCR gap)

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Greif

8.4
OX Paperboard

7.8
This site

7.7
CARAUSTAR

7.2
Ace Paper Tube

7.1

What this shows Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC averages 7.7 TCR (233% of the Paperboard mills BLS benchmark).

Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2017=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC falls in its industry

181 Paperboard mills establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Paperboard mills employers in Illinois.

Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC (50 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Ox Paperboard Illinois, LLC has fewer employees than the Paperboard mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2017	7.8	7.8	4	0	0
2016	7.5	3.8	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · IL · Pekin

181 Paperboard mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 84 employers in Pekin, IL · 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	OX Paperboard Halltown	HALLTOWN, WV	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CARAUSTAR	WAYNESVILLE, NC	7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ace Paper Tube Corporation	CLEVELAND, OH	7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Greif	BEARDSTOWN, IL	8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	DuPont Pioneer Champaign CMI1	IVESDALE	50 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1240-Monmouth, IL	MONMOUTH	50 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Constellation Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC)	WILMINGTON	50 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Storage	DECATUR	50 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Federal Correctional Institution - Staff and Inmates	Pekin	1,380 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pekin Hospital	Pekin	420 FTE
CITY-NEAR	603	Pekin	367 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 603	Pekin	351 FTE
NAT-TCR	0091 - Macon, Ga	Macon, GA	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Odessa Center (Txode)	Odessa, TX	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rose Haven	Litchfield, CT	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Voorhees Center	Voorhees, NJ	7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Camdenton Inc	Camdenton, MO	50 FTE
NAT-SIZE	N and R of California Inc	California, MO	50 FTE
NAT-SIZE	06- Knoxville, TN	Oak Ridge, TN	50 FTE
NAT-SIZE	AmeriGas - Ft. Lauderdale, FL	Ft Lauderdale, FL	50 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: 2017, 2016. 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.