Paperboard mills · Iowa

Tama Paperboard

Tama, IA · ~89 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tama Paperboard runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paperboard mills workplace, earning a grade C.

Tama Paperboard: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Paperboard mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tama Paperboard safety composite

Tama Paperboard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.0

2016→2019

Tama Paperboard injury rate improved

Tama Paperboard's TCR fell 2.0 from 4.1 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2017=3.1 · 2019=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322130 · Tama, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK P33
  • PHOTO Evergreen Packaging …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Evergreen Packaging - Olmsted Falls (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tama Paperboard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tama Paperboard averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Paperboard mills BLS benchmark).

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

Tama Paperboard TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=3.1 · 2019=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Tama Paperboard falls in its industry

181 Paperboard mills establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Tama Paperboard (89 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Tama Paperboard
Tama Paperboard (89 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Tama Paperboard has fewer employees than the Paperboard mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2019 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2017 3.1 1.0 3 0 0
2016 4.1 2.1 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · IA · Tama

181 Paperboard mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in Tama, IA · 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 Evergreen Packaging - Olmsted Falls 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Paper Box 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fitchburg Paperboard 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt Industries (Robert Mann Packaging) LLC - Oxnard 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms Dows 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICF Ovation 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muscatine Power & Water Power Plant 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa Premium 792 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7515_18290 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tama County Highway Department 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR QSI Tama 33 FTE
NAT-TCR NHS Mgt 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond Transport LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR A-Deck, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ottawa County 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2300 Eldo Rd 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Grocers # 133 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Grocers # 138 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0004 0801 89 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.