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

Watertown Box

Watertown, SD · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watertown Box runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade F.

Watertown Box: 7.3 TCR = 220% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watertown Box safety composite

Watertown Box scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Watertown Box: 3.7 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Watertown Box's TCR rose 3.1 from 3.7 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Watertown, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 220% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO AGE El Paso Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AGE El Paso Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watertown Box in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watertown Box averages 7.3 TCR (220% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, 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

Watertown Box TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Watertown Box falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in South Dakota.

Watertown Box (28 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 Watertown Box
Watertown Box (28 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Watertown Box has fewer employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made 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
2019 6.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 11.3 0.0 3 0 0
2016 3.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · SD · Watertown

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 80 employers in Watertown, SD · 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 AGE El Paso Plant 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peachtree Packaging, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rand-Whitney Boylston 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tucson Container Corp. 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Hills Electric Cooperative 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwoods 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timmons Construction Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare System 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare 601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terex - Watertown 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1500 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Obx-Hhh1-Spring Arbor Outer Banks 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Decatur 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 1891 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR True Value Kansas City RDC 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oiltanking Joliet, LLC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Essentra 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaCrosse Facility 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rws Tx Concho Vlly H O Flipper 28 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, 2018, 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.