Cards, die-cut (except office supply) made from purchased paper or paperboard · Illinois

Pierce Box and Paper

Belvidere, IL · ~16 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pierce Box and Paper runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cards, die-cut (except office supply) made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade F.

Pierce Box and Paper: 7.5 TCR = 227% of Cards, die-cut (except office supply) made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pierce Box and Paper safety composite

Pierce Box and Paper scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Pierce Box and Paper: 0.0 → 15.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 15.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2021

Pierce Box and Paper's TCR rose 15.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 15.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322299 · Belvidere, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 227% of ind

  • DART 15.0 DART
  • RANK #11/17
  • PHOTO Evergreen Manufactur…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Evergreen Manufacturing (0.1 TCR gap)

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Pierce Box and Paper in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pierce Box and Paper averages 7.5 TCR (227% of the Cards, die-cut (except office supply) 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

Pierce Box and Paper TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=15 · BLS 3.3

Where Pierce Box and Paper falls in its industry

236 Cards, die-cut (except office establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 17 Cards, die-cut (except office employers in Illinois.

Pierce Box and Paper (16 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pierce Box and Paper
Pierce Box and Paper (16 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Pierce Box and Paper has fewer employees than the Cards, die-cut (except office supply) ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 15.0 15.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322299 · IL · Belvidere

236 Cards, die-cut (except office supply) made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 74 employers in Belvidere, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Evergreen Manufacturing 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Quality Packaging 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terra Mulch Products, LLC dba Profile Products, LLC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fleenor Macon 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE PNPN_Leland 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE FRED TEITELBAUM CONSTRUCTION CO 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE NU Welsh Ryan Arena Ren 17090001 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kassen Excavating, Inc. 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belvidere Assembly Plant 3,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna Exterirors Belvidere 655 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills (Belvidere) 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills Operations, LLC. 560 FTE
NAT-TCR Metal-Weld Specialties, Inc 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 381695-Cle-Strongsville Br 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dutchmen Plant 845 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hi-Tech Metal Finishing 7.5 TCR

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. 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.