Deinking recovered paper · Texas

Smurfit Kappa Houston

Houston, TX · ~40 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smurfit Kappa Houston runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Deinking recovered paper workplace, earning a grade D.

Smurfit Kappa Houston: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Deinking recovered paper BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smurfit Kappa Houston safety composite

Smurfit Kappa Houston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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 Houston: 3.1 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

Smurfit Kappa Houston's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.1 in 2018 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322110 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK P24
  • PHOTO Hazen Paper Company
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hazen Paper Company (0.2 TCR gap)

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Smurfit Kappa Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smurfit Kappa Houston averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the Deinking recovered paper BLS benchmark).

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

Smurfit Kappa Houston TCR series: 2018=3.1 · 2019=12.7 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Smurfit Kappa Houston falls in its industry

46 Deinking recovered paper establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Smurfit Kappa Houston (40 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 Smurfit Kappa Houston
Smurfit Kappa Houston (40 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Smurfit Kappa Houston has fewer employees than the Deinking recovered paper median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2019 12.7 7.6 5 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322110 · TX · Houston

46 Deinking recovered paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 Hazen Paper Company 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fox River Fiber 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL335 Foley Cellulose 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schwartz Manufacturing Company 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE RCB Ventures, LLC dba Tri-Tex Grass 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cook Canyon Ranch 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Feedyard 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kurten Location 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR 1079 - High Point 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0642 - Delray Beach 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care of Morgan Co 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Edina Public School 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hussmann Services Corporation - Lenexa 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nardozzi Paving & Construction LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pennsylvania Bedding Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Black Swan Manufacturing Company 40 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, 2019, 2018. 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.