Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard · Tennessee

WestRock F&B

Knoxville, TN · ~207 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WestRock F&B runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

WestRock F&B: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WestRock F&B safety composite

WestRock F&B scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2023→2024

WestRock F&B injury rate improved

WestRock F&B's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.9 in 2023 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.9 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO MPS Chicago Tube
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~207 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MPS Chicago Tube (0.0 TCR gap)

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WestRock F&B in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WestRock F&B averages 3.7 TCR (113% 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

WestRock F&B TCR series: 2023=3.9 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where WestRock F&B falls in its industry

140 Bobbins, fiber, made from purc establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Bobbins, fiber, made from purc employers in Tennessee.

WestRock F&B (207 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 WestRock F&B
WestRock F&B (207 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

WestRock F&B 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
2024 3.5 3.0 7 0 0
2023 3.9 2.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · TN · Knoxville

140 Bobbins, fiber, made from purchased paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, TN · 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 MPS Chicago Tube 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huhtamaki- Fulton 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aspen Products - Kansas City 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meridian Tube Plant 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cherokee Millwright 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hutchinson Body Sealing Systems 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tube Facility 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eurotranciatura USA 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR Starr Manufacturing, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland corn Products 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hohmann & Barnard (Pennsylvania) 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni San Francisco Hotel 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Colusa Indian Community Council 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayashi Telempu North America - Kentucky 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6294 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prus Construction Company 207 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: 2024, 2023. 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.