Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard · California

Smurfit Kappa North America - Carson

Carson, CA · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smurfit Kappa North America - Carson runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Smurfit Kappa North America - Carson: 5.8 TCR = 176% of Corrugated and solid fiber boxes 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 dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 North America - Carson: 1.6 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2020

Smurfit Kappa North America - Carson's TCR rose 8.4 from 1.6 in 2019 to 10.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #96/111
  • PHOTO VA038 Martinsville C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VA038 Martinsville Container (0.0 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 5.8 TCR (176% of the Corrugated and solid fiber boxes 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: 2019=1.6 · 2020=10 · BLS 3.3

Where Smurfit Kappa North America - Carson falls in its industry

1,338 Corrugated and solid fiber box establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #96 safest of 111 Corrugated and solid fiber box employers in California.

Smurfit Kappa North America - Carson (52 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Smurfit Kappa North America - Carson
Smurfit Kappa North America - Carson (52 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made fr 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
2020 10.0 6.0 5 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · CA · Carson

1,338 Corrugated and solid fiber boxes 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 VA038 Martinsville Container 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomson Manufacturing 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PHILPAC CORPORATION Military Road 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt Industries Site 7814 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Phil Foster Ranch 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oceano Packing Company 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Ivanhoe 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brassfield Estate Vineyard 52 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 Emerald Performance Materials - Henry 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Health Lifestar Ambulance 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennex Aluminum Company LLC. (Wellsville Operations) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Insource Performance Solutions at Coke Lavergne 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Iowa Falls Plant 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ash Resources, Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anchor Fire Protection Company 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Waterford at Edison Lakes 52 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.