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

Welch Packaging, LLC

Elkhart, IN · ~305 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Welch Packaging, LLC runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

Welch Packaging, LLC: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welch Packaging, LLC safety composite

Welch Packaging, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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, LLC: 1.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2020

Welch Packaging, LLC's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.0 in 2018 to 2.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Elkhart, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #40/67
  • PHOTO Rockford Container
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~305 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rockford Container (0.0 TCR gap)

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Welch Packaging, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Welch Packaging, LLC averages 2.1 TCR (65% 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

Welch Packaging, LLC TCR series: 2018=1 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Welch Packaging, LLC falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 67 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Indiana.

Welch Packaging, LLC (305 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 0100200300400 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Welch Packaging, LLC
Welch Packaging, LLC (305 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Welch Packaging, LLC 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2020 2.7 1.7 8 0 0
2019 2.7 0.7 5 3 0
2018 1.0 0.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IN · Elkhart

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, IN · 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 Rockford Container 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper Middletown Container 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SupplyOne Oklahoma City, Inc. - Tulsa 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Packaging - Fort Worth, TX 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MSI Express - Carlson 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardinal IG - Fremont IG 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1570 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2787 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR MCHP Tempe 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerald Ridge Assisted Living, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CTC - Company 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oil States Lampasas 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Princeton R&D 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fruit Packing #4 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARYZTA - Van Nuys 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE ON Semiconductor Western Ave 305 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, 2018. 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.