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

Welch Packaging Cleveland

Name: Welch Packaging Cleveland Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Valley View, OH · ~82 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Welch Packaging Cleveland runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

Welch Packaging Cleveland: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welch Packaging Cleveland safety composite

Welch Packaging Cleveland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Welch Packaging Cleveland: 0.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2022

Welch Packaging Cleveland's TCR rose 4.4 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Valley View, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK #68/109
PHOTO International Paper
BOOK 4y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Welch Packaging Cleveland averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

Welch Packaging Cleveland TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.9 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Welch Packaging Cleveland falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 109 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Ohio.

Welch Packaging Cleveland (82 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Welch Packaging Cleveland 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
2022	4.4	1.5	3
2021	4.3	2.9	3
2019	2.9	2.9	2
2018	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · OH · Valley View

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 45 employers in Valley View, OH · 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	International Paper	DES PLAINES, IL	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	4047 Devens Box Plant	DEVENS, MA	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Merrill Industries, LLC	ELLINGTON, CT	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SPL- New England Sheets MA	DEVENS, MA	2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Ridge Manor	MADISON	82 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Buckeye Power, Inc.	COLUMBUS	82 FTE
STATE-SIZE	FORJAK Industrial	CIRCLEVILLE	82 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cook Paving & Construction Co., Inc.	BROOKLYN HTS.	82 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Office	Valley View	800 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Safeguard Properties - Valley View Headquarters	Valley View	448 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - CAK4	Valley View	319 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Connections In Ohio	Valley View	219 FTE
NAT-TCR	Fresh Ideas Management- Missouri Southern State University	Joplin, MO	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Guy W Shoup Inc	Emlenton, PA	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Merced City School District	Merced, CA	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	WinCup Stone Mountain	Stone Mountain, GA	2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Construction	Battle Creek, MI	82 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amcor Flexibles Asheville	Asheville, NC	82 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Murphy & Miller, Inc.	Chicago, IL	82 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Peak Resources-Shelby	Shelby, NC	82 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.