Converted paper (except stationery and office supplies) merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Packaging Specialties, LLC

Newburyport, MA · ~79 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Packaging Specialties, LLC runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Converted paper (except stationery and office supplies) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Packaging Specialties, LLC: 0.8 TCR = 37% of Converted paper (except stationery and office supplies) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Packaging Specialties, LLC safety composite

Packaging Specialties, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Packaging Specialties, LLC: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Packaging Specialties, LLC's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Newburyport, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 37% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO SAS Safety Corporati…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SAS Safety Corporation (Long Beach) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Packaging Specialties, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Packaging Specialties, LLC averages 0.8 TCR (37% of the Converted paper (except stationery and office supplies) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Packaging Specialties, LLC TCR series: 2017=0 · 2023=1.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Packaging Specialties, LLC falls in its industry

290 Converted paper (except statio establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Converted paper (except statio employers in Massachusetts.

Packaging Specialties, LLC (79 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Packaging Specialties, LLC
Packaging Specialties, LLC (79 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Packaging Specialties, LLC has more employees than the Converted paper (except stationery and o median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2023 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · MA · Newburyport

290 Converted paper (except stationery and office supplies) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 59 employers in Newburyport, 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 SAS Safety Corporation (Long Beach) 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAS Safety Corporation 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Landsberg Houston 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veritiv Operating Company - NY051 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medical Area Total Energy Plant, LLC. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE NE DISTRIB CENTER (SUTTON)-MA25 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMESBURY-MA02 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1800 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anna Jaques Hospital 946 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETH ISREAL DEACONESS HOSPITAL ANNA JAQUES 491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester Electronics LLC 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turning Point, Inc. 334 FTE
NAT-TCR Rockwell Automation- Houston TX-S+S (SCH) 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Locally Owned Radio, LLC. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Chrysler 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayo Clinic Health System-Red Wing Seminary 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE USI (Hastings, MN) 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE NA-US-MD-Hunt Valley-Clubhouse Road 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hill Country Rehab and Nursing Center 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watertown 79 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: 2023, 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.