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

Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth

North Richland Hills, TX · ~177 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth runs at 57% 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.

Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth safety composite

Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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)
C 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth: 0.5 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2023

Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.5 in 2018 to 2.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · North Richland Hills, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #42/102
  • PHOTO International Paper
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth averages 1.9 TCR (57% 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

Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth TCR series: 2018=0.5 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 102 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Texas.

Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth (177 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth
Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth (177 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth has more employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a lower 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
2023 2.3 1.2 4 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 5 0 0
2018 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · TX · North Richland Hills

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 45 employers in North Richland Hills, TX · 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 International Paper 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4330 Chattanooga Container 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPL-Independence Corrugated WI 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Akers Packaging Solutions, Inc. (Decatur) 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE MidSouth Electric Co-op 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Primoris Distribution Services - Area 70 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE 105359 - Orange County Advanced Power Station 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE XIT Paving and Construction, INC. 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical City North Hills 651 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 807 389 FTE
CITY-NEAR 807 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3274 346 FTE
NAT-TCR UCPC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Merrick Construction Companies, Inc. d/b/a Merrick-Kemper 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Az305 - Target Returns Distribution Facility 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Americal Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern Region : Csr 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products, LLC. 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Escondido Ca Plant 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dimondale Nursing and Rehab 177 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: 2023, 2022, 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.