Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard · Tennessee

TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging)

Chattanooga, TN · ~222 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging): 0.9 TCR = 28% of Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) safety composite

TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) held a steady TCR band

TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging)'s TCR held near 0.1 from 0.9 in 2022 to 1.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.9 · 2023=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO Caraustar Kingston S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Cartons, folding (except milk), made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) TCR series: 2022=0.9 · 2023=1 · BLS 3.3

Where TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) falls in its industry

205 Cartons, folding (except milk) establishments

Safer than 84% 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 #3 safest of 11 Cartons, folding (except milk) employers in Tennessee.

TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) (222 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging)
TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) (222 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

TPC Printing / Packaging (textile Printing and Packaging) has more employees than the Cartons, folding (except milk), made fro 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
2023 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2022 0.9 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · TN · Chattanooga

205 Cartons, folding (except milk), 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 Caraustar Kingston Springs Carton Plant 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huhtamaki Inc - Paris 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2930 Fresno FoldPak 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joplin Folding 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Merryman Farr, LLC 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coorstek 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Magotteaux 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyosung HICO 222 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 Evonik Corporation 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FST Logistics GC2 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Reading Facility 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FKCI Midwest Offfice 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dianne's Fine Desserts 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Behavior Management Systems 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Installation Specialists, Inc. 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silver Star Brands Operations 222 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.