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Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc.

Name: Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Milwaukee, WI · ~169 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paperboard mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc.: 2.1 TCR = 62% of Paperboard mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. safety composite

Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−1.0

2018→2019

Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. injury rate improved

Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.0 from 2.6 in 2018 to 1.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.6 · 2019=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322130 · Milwaukee, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 62% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #4/8
PHOTO 3701 Covington Mill
BOOK 2y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3701 Covington Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. averages 2.1 TCR (62% of the Paperboard mills BLS benchmark).

Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. TCR series: 2018=2.6 · 2019=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. falls in its industry

181 Paperboard mills establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Paperboard mills employers in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. (169 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. has more employees than the Paperboard mills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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	1.6	0.0	3	0	0
2018	2.6	1.0	5	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · WI · Milwaukee

181 Paperboard mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 980 employers in Milwaukee, WI · 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	3701 Covington Mill	COVINGTON, VA	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Saltwell Chip Mill	DEMOPOLIS, AL	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	US Gypsum Oakfield	OAKFIELD, NY	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	International Paper	MANSFIELD, LA	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Heartland Farms, Incorporated	HANCOCK	169 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Foremost Farms USA (Appleton, WI)	APPLETON	169 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AFP Clear Lake	CLEAR LAKE	169 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Suttle-Straus	WAUNAKEE	169 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center	Milwaukee	7,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FROEDTERT HOSPITAL	Milwaukee	7,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Milwaukee Hospital	Milwaukee	3,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Childrens Hospital - Milw Campus	Milwaukee	2,851 FTE
NAT-TCR	Molded	Plymouth, MN	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Evansville Rebuild Shop	Evansville, WY	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	5472-Swy 0035 2808	Washington, DC	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Hudson River Tractor Company - Chatham	Chatham, NY	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	All States Asphalt Sunderland	Sunderland, MA	169 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tops 220	Depew, NY	169 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pennsylvania Power Company	Youngstown, OH	169 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NHS Mgt	Luverne, AL	169 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.