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

Rusken Packaging Cullman

Cullman, AL · ~317 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rusken Packaging Cullman runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

Rusken Packaging Cullman: 2.5 TCR = 76% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rusken Packaging Cullman safety composite

Rusken Packaging Cullman scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−2.7

2016→2019

Rusken Packaging Cullman injury rate improved

Rusken Packaging Cullman's TCR fell 2.7 from 4.1 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2017=1.0 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Cullman, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 76% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #15/22
  • PHOTO Premier Packaging, L…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~317 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Premier Packaging, LLC- Fontana DC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rusken Packaging Cullman in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rusken Packaging Cullman averages 2.5 TCR (76% 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

Rusken Packaging Cullman TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=1 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Rusken Packaging Cullman falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 22 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Alabama.

Rusken Packaging Cullman (317 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 0100200300400 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Rusken Packaging Cullman
Rusken Packaging Cullman (317 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Rusken Packaging Cullman has more 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
2019 1.4 0.5 6 0 0
2018 3.5 2.3 12 0 0
2017 1.0 0.0 3 0 0
2016 4.1 1.6 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · AL · Cullman

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 98 employers in Cullman, AL · 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 Premier Packaging, LLC- Fontana DC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OXFORD 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper - Middletown Container 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SupplyOne Dallas - Fort Worth 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flowers Bakery of Montgomery, LLC 317 FTE
STATE-SIZE KwangSung 317 FTE
STATE-SIZE HS Automotive Alabama 317 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pace Runners, Inc. 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cullman 1,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6006 1,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6006 1,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rehau Auto Cullman 1,008 FTE
NAT-TCR MN,TRACY - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer Store #190 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Colgate Palmolive Company 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Impact Fire Services (Dallas Office) 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frasier Meadows Manor Inc. 317 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nemacolin (460) 317 FTE
NAT-SIZE TriMark United East 317 FTE
NAT-SIZE 11800 Tech Rd 317 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.