Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard · Michigan

Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc.

Taylor, MI · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc. runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc.: 5.5 TCR = 165% of Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc. safety composite

Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc.: 0.0 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc.'s TCR rose 10.9 from 0.0 in 2023 to 10.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Taylor, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 165% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #51/60
  • PHOTO Smurfit Kappa Phoeni…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smurfit Kappa Phoenix Corrugator (0.0 TCR gap)

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Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc. averages 5.5 TCR (165% of the Corrugated and solid fiber boxes 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

Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc. TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=10.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc. falls in its industry

1,338 Corrugated and solid fiber box establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #51 safest of 60 Corrugated and solid fiber box employers in Michigan.

Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc.
Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc. has fewer employees than the Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made fr 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
2024 10.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MI · Taylor

1,338 Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 116 employers in Taylor, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Smurfit Kappa Phoenix Corrugator 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt (Signature Packaging), LLC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smurfit Kappa Phoenix Converting 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arrow Carton Company 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE White Cloud 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Roseville Water 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE PENCON, INC. d/b/a Peninsula Construction & Design, Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE E.F. Wilkinson & Sons, Inc. 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-5 1,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Team Solutions Corporate US 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2912 435 FTE
NAT-TCR Royal Metal Products 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Palm Gardens Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Marshall High School 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Salina Fairdale 5.5 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.