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

Valley Packaging Corp

Name: Valley Packaging Corp Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Pulaski, TN · ~137 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Valley Packaging Corp runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Valley Packaging Corp: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Packaging Corp safety composite

Valley Packaging Corp scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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).

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−1.0

2016→2020

Valley Packaging Corp injury rate improved

Valley Packaging Corp's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.5 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.5 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Pulaski, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

DART 0.6 DART
RANK #9/57
PHOTO The Royal Group
BOOK 3y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Royal Group (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Valley Packaging Corp averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

Valley Packaging Corp TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Valley Packaging Corp falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 57 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Tennessee.

Valley Packaging Corp (137 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Valley Packaging Corp has more employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a lower 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
2020	0.6	0.6	1
2019	0.6	0.6	1
2016	1.5	0.0	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · TN · Pulaski

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 38 employers in Pulaski, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	The Royal Group	ADDISON, IL	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pratt (Mississippi Box), Inc	JACKSON, MS	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BCI - Indianapolis Division	INDIANAPOLIS, IN	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	International Paper	FOREST PARK, GA	0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Tele-Optics, Inc	KINGSPORT	137 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Delta Foremost Chemical Corporation	MEMPHIS	137 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Printing	NASHVILLE	137 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TN705 Cumberland City Gypsum	CUMBERLAND CITY	137 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PULASKI PLANT	Pulaski	611 FTE
CITY-NEAR	35370 - PULASKI PLANT	Pulaski	474 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SaarGummi Tennessee Inc.	Pulaski	426 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Adient, Pulaski TN	Pulaski	299 FTE
NAT-TCR	Rice Lake Corporate Office	Deerwood, MN	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Key People Company	Lakewood, CO	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Alamo Structural Steel-Waco Plant	Waco, TX	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. Vinland	Neenah, WI	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Lee Hi Travel Plaza	Lexington, VA	137 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Precision Planting Tremont	Tremont, IL	137 FTE
NAT-SIZE	UPM Ohio	Hamilton, OH	137 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Interstate Parking Services, LLC	Milwaukee, WI	137 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.