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

Smurfit Kappa North America Carson

Carson, CA · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smurfit Kappa North America Carson runs at 636% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade F.

Smurfit Kappa North America Carson: 21.0 TCR = 636% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smurfit Kappa North America Carson safety composite

Smurfit Kappa North America Carson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

2021→2022

Smurfit Kappa North America Carson injury rate improved

Smurfit Kappa North America Carson's TCR fell 2.7 from 22.3 in 2021 to 19.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 22.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=22.3 · 2022=19.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Carson, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.0 · 636% of ind

  • DART 19.6 DART
  • RANK #111/111
  • PHOTO Rapid Packaging Comp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rapid Packaging Company Inc. (4.9 TCR gap)

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Smurfit Kappa North America Carson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smurfit Kappa North America Carson averages 21.0 TCR (636% 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 North America Carson TCR series: 2021=22.3 · 2022=19.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Smurfit Kappa North America Carson falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #111 safest of 111 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in California.

Smurfit Kappa North America Carson (34 employees, TCR 21.0) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Smurfit Kappa North America Carson
Smurfit Kappa North America Carson (34 employees, TCR 21.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Smurfit Kappa North America Carson has fewer 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
2022 19.6 19.6 1 0 0
2021 22.3 22.3 7 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · CA · Carson

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 236 employers in Carson, 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 Rapid Packaging Company Inc. 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anchor Bay Packaging Corporation - Plant 5 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Paper Box Mfrs, Inc 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 14.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ardent Mills Yuba City 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Filice Farms, L.P. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexander Ranch, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE MFarms 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centric Parts (PEO) - Carson 1,190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Refinery Carson 1,083 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMPAM Parks Mechanical 965 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Carson 755 FTE
NAT-TCR Hawthorne Gardens Senior Living 21.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Maplewood at Danbury LLC 21.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Desert Behavioral Health Hospital 21.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Anderson Metal Industries, Inc 21.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE BRO-ODFL 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE NPCES 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt. Pleasant #2 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herb Holden Trucking, Inc. 34 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.