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

Welch Packaging Marion

Name: Welch Packaging Marion Workplace Safety Data
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Marion, IN · ~81 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Welch Packaging Marion runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Welch Packaging Marion: 6.4 TCR = 193% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welch Packaging Marion safety composite

Welch Packaging Marion scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers
DART rate: F 14.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 Marion: 4.7 → 14.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.26× in 2021

Welch Packaging Marion's TCR rose 9.7 from 4.7 in 2018 to 14.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Marion, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 193% of ind

DART 14.4 DART
RANK #64/67
PHOTO Gulf Packaging Talla…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gulf Packaging Tallassee (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.4
Gulf Packaging

6.4
Liberty Packag

6.4
CA429 San Fran

6.3
Corrugated Sup

6.3

What this shows Welch Packaging Marion averages 6.4 TCR (193% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

Welch Packaging Marion TCR series: 2018=4.7 · 2019=0 · 2021=14.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Welch Packaging Marion falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 67 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Indiana.

Welch Packaging Marion (81 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Welch Packaging Marion 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
2021	14.4	14.4	6
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	4.7	3.1	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IN · Marion

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 · 81 employers in Marion, IN · 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	Gulf Packaging Tallassee	TALLASSEE, AL	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CA429 San Francisco Bay Packaging	SAN LEANDRO, CA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Corrugated Supplies Company- Atlanta, LLC.	CONYERS, GA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Liberty Packaging, Brooklyn Park	BROOKLYN PARK, MN	6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Jenacre Egg Farm	NORTH VERNON	81 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Newton County Egg Farm	BROOK	81 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Indiana American Water-Northwest District Service Center	GARY	81 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Alva Electric Inc	EVANSVILLE	81 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Indiana Wesleyan University	Marion	4,342 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Marion Health	Marion	1,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Marion Metal Center	Marion	1,073 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Marion Stamping, General Motors	Marion	864 FTE
NAT-TCR	Red Head Brass, LLC	Shreve, OH	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tejas Tubular Products- Stephenville	Stephenville, TX	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Loutech LLC	Chino, CA	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	P@E Construction	Orange, CA	6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Americold East Point, GA	East Point, GA	81 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Harvard Miantenenace Inc. of New Jersey	Iselin, NJ	81 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Swanton Health Care & Retirement Center	Swanton, OH	81 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ABC Hyundai	Las Vegas, NV	81 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: 2021, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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