Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard · California

Royal Paper Box Co.

Montebello, CA · ~226 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Royal Paper Box Co. runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Royal Paper Box Co.: 4.8 TCR = 145% of Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Royal Paper Box Co. safety composite

Royal Paper Box Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

TCR Δ

−414.4

2017→2024

Royal Paper Box Co. injury rate improved

Royal Paper Box Co.'s TCR fell 414.4 from 420.0 in 2017 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 420.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=420.0 · 2019=2.0 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · Montebello, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO Colbert Packaging Co…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 82 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Royal Paper Box Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Royal Paper Box Co. averages 4.8 TCR (145% of the Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Royal Paper Box Co. TCR series: 2017=420 · 2019=2 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=4 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Royal Paper Box Co. falls in its industry

205 Cartons, folding (except milk) establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 19 Cartons, folding (except milk) employers in California.

Royal Paper Box Co. (226 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Royal Paper Box Co.
Royal Paper Box Co. (226 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Royal Paper Box Co. has more employees than the Cartons, folding (except milk), made fro median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2024 5.6 5.2 14 0 0
2023 6.6 5.4 17 0 0
2022 4.0 3.7 9 2 0
2021 7.3 5.5 10 2 0
2020 3.3 2.4 6 1 0
2019 2.0 2.0 5 0 0
2017 420.0 420.0 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · CA · Montebello

205 Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 86 employers in Montebello, CA · 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 Colbert Packaging Corporation - Lake Forest 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HSM Packaging 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boutwell Packaging Inc 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thoro Packaging 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bayview Vineyards, INC 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Family Tree Farms Inc. 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grower Direct Nut Company 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vinculums Services LLC 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beverly Hospital 878 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Montebello 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rio Hondo Subacute and Nursing Center 489 FTE
CITY-NEAR MONTEBELLO CA PLANT 344 FTE
NAT-TCR Blue Diamond Industries Clinton 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR IFS Industries, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR D-M Products Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Blackhawk Transport Save a Lot Edwardsville Il 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Waterproofing 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transcontinental Packaging Brooklyn 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone RV Company - Plant 57 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arkansas Plastics Operations 226 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.