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

Welch Packaging Kentucky

Name: Welch Packaging Kentucky Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Mt Sterling, KY · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Welch Packaging Kentucky runs at 18% 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.

Welch Packaging Kentucky: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welch Packaging Kentucky safety composite

Welch Packaging Kentucky scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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 Kentucky: 0.0 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2019

Welch Packaging Kentucky's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Mt Sterling, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

DART 0.4 DART
RANK #3/26
PHOTO Pratt (Converting Di…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pratt (Converting Division, San Antonio) LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Welch Packaging Kentucky averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

Welch Packaging Kentucky TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Welch Packaging Kentucky falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 26 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Kentucky.

Welch Packaging Kentucky (32 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Welch Packaging Kentucky has fewer 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	Illnesses	Fatalities
2019	1.2	0.4	3	0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · KY · Mt Sterling

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 7 employers in Mt Sterling, KY · 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	Pratt (Converting Division, San Antonio) LLC	SCHERTZ, TX	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Interanational Paper North Kansas City	KANSAS CITY, MO	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pratt Industries	HUMBOLDT, TN	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Montgomery Container	MONTGOMERY, AL	0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Limestone Transmission Substation	LEXINGTON	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Schaefer General Contracting Services	LOUISVILLE	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ray Black & Son, Inc.	PADUCAH	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	OMNI Commercial LLC	LEXINGTON	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Precision Resource KY Division	Mt Sterling	149 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2807-2768	Mt Sterling	130 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2768 LOWE S OF MT. STERLING KY	Mt Sterling	121 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Unit # 2788	Mt Sterling	68 FTE
NAT-TCR	Member Support Center - MSC	Carlsbad, CA	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Solar Testing Labs	Brooklyn Heights, OH	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Thiele Technologies Fergus Falls	Fergus Falls, MN	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Perma-Fix of Florida, Inc. (Pff)	Gainesville,, FL	0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Staybridge Suites	Charlotte, NC	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	SCH	Scotia, NY	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jamb Plant	San Bernardino, CA	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Central Livestock - West Fargo	West Fargo, ND	32 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. 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.