Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard · North Carolina

Welcome Tube

Welcome, NC · ~161 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Welcome Tube runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Welcome Tube: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welcome Tube safety composite

Welcome Tube scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Welcome Tube: 3.4 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2021

Welcome Tube's TCR rose 3.4 from 3.4 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Welcome, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO IPG Longview
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IPG Longview (0.1 TCR gap)

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Welcome Tube in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Welcome Tube averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Welcome Tube TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=6.4 · 2018=2.5 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Welcome Tube falls in its industry

140 Bobbins, fiber, made from purc establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Bobbins, fiber, made from purc employers in North Carolina.

Welcome Tube (161 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Welcome Tube
Welcome Tube (161 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Welcome Tube has more employees than the Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased pape median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2021 6.8 4.1 10 0 0
2020 4.1 4.1 5 1 0
2018 2.5 0.6 4 0 0
2017 6.4 3.7 11 1 0
2016 3.4 2.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · NC · Welcome

140 Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Welcome, NC · 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 IPG Longview 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caraustar Tacoma PAB Plant 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aspen Products, Inc. Georgia 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TUBE-TAINER 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pike Telecom and Renewables Massachuttes Statewide Operations 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennoca Construction Company 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE System Logistics Corporation 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warco Construction Inc 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASCO Power Technologies 584 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00554 - STORE # 554 WELCOME 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR 554 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR CARTER LUMBER 419 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Pebble Beach - Corporate Yard 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jefferson City, MO 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Waxman Consumer Products Group 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Automotive Supply Associates Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE DeWitt 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polyone Seabrook TX 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unicep Packaging, Spokane 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haley Toyota of Richmond 161 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, 2020, 2018, 2017, 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.