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

Packaging Specialties

Romulus, MI · ~93 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Packaging Specialties runs at 85% 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.

Packaging Specialties: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Packaging Specialties safety composite

Packaging Specialties scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Packaging Specialties: 1.9 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.95× in 2021

Packaging Specialties's TCR rose 3.6 from 1.9 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Romulus, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #24/60
  • PHOTO SupplyOne Weyers Cave
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SupplyOne Weyers Cave (0.0 TCR gap)

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Packaging Specialties in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Packaging Specialties averages 2.8 TCR (85% 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

Packaging Specialties TCR series: 2018=1.9 · 2019=1 · 2021=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Packaging Specialties falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #24 safest of 60 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Michigan.

Packaging Specialties (93 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Packaging Specialties
Packaging Specialties (93 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Packaging Specialties 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
2021 5.5 5.5 3 0 0
2019 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MI · Romulus

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 · 199 employers in Romulus, 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 SupplyOne Weyers Cave 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR KALAMAZOO, MI HEXACOMB 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt Industries, Allentown Corrugated, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Quality Packaging Corp. 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trenton Channel Power Point 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Presque Isle Electric & Gas Coop 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan UCI 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE 13001 Merriman Rd., Livonia, MI 48150 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DTW1 3,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DTW1 3,502 FTE
CITY-NEAR Romulus Powertrain 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Romulus 1,037 FTE
NAT-TCR Mercedes Office 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR John Mills Electric, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulf Business Forms, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sterling Avenue 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Complete HealthCare Resources 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Care at Home (247-MARIN) 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE LGS Pace, LLC.-UT 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE AllParts Medical 93 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: 2021, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.