Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard · Tennessee

Southern Champion Tray

Chattanooga, TN · ~609 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Champion Tray runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Southern Champion Tray: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Champion Tray safety composite

Southern Champion Tray scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−0.6

2017→2024

Southern Champion Tray injury rate improved

Southern Champion Tray's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.4 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.4 · 2018=1.3 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · Chattanooga, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Carol Stream IL
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~609 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carol Stream IL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Champion Tray in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Champion Tray averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Champion Tray TCR series: 2017=1.4 · 2018=1.3 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Champion Tray falls in its industry

205 Boxes, folding (except corruga establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Boxes, folding (except corruga employers in Tennessee.

Southern Champion Tray (609 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 Southern Champion Tray
Southern Champion Tray (609 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Southern Champion Tray has more employees than the Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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 0.9 0.7 5 0 0
2023 2.3 2.0 16 0 0
2018 1.3 0.8 8 0 0
2017 1.4 1.1 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · TN · Chattanooga

205 Boxes, folding (except corrugated), made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 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 Carol Stream IL 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Champion Tray Mansfield Texas 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Paso Paper Box, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper - Scotia Sheet Plant 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE PULASKI PLANT 611 FTE
STATE-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain - Cummins MDC 1 605 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sea Ray Boats - Tellico 614 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edwards Oil Company Inc. 604 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Garrett Liners Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fox River Valley Ethanol, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheehy Construction Company 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Menasha Packaging Company - Santa Fe Springs 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE RMZ Farm Labor Services 609 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sterilite Corporation CSC 609 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michels Pipeline Inc-WI-Brownsville 609 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MDT2 609 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.