Cores (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), fiber, made from purchased paperboard · Washington

Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent

Kent, WA · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent runs at 337% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cores (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), fiber, made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade F.

Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent: 11.1 TCR = 337% of Cores (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), fiber, made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent safety composite

Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent 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 11.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.06 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

Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent: 8.2 → 14.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2018

Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent's TCR rose 5.9 from 8.2 in 2017 to 14.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Kent, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 337% of ind

  • DART 14.1 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Western Container Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Western Container Corporation (0.4 TCR gap)

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Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent averages 11.1 TCR (337% of the Cores (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), fiber, made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent TCR series: 2017=8.2 · 2018=14.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent falls in its industry

140 Cores (i.e., all-fiber, nonfib establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Cores (i.e., all-fiber, nonfib employers in Washington.

Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent (26 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent
Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent (26 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Kent has fewer employees than the Cores (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 14.1 14.1 4 0 0
2017 8.2 8.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · WA · Kent

140 Cores (i.e., all-fiber, nonfiber ends of any material), fiber, made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kent, WA · 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 Western Container Corporation 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Paper Tube, Inc. Portland 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Newark Group dba Greif 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group, Inc 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bosma Ag Enterprises 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Shadow Nursery LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trout Lake Farm East Mill 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE D&A Dairy LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Origin 3,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BFI4 2,994 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFI4 2,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA006 2,529 FTE
NAT-TCR Laurel Depot 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland (Txaun) 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Discovery Cove 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson County Public Works 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Abatement Contractors of Montana, LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penske : 4721-00 Cardinal/Tampa, FL 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penske : 5252-00 Toyota-DCC/East Chicago, IN 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 23rd Street 26 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.