Flexographic printing (except books, printing grey goods) · Tennessee

WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville

Knoxville, TN · ~387 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flexographic printing (except books, printing grey goods) workplace, earning a grade C.

WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Flexographic printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville safety composite

WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

2016→2020

WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville injury rate improved

WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.5 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Knoxville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #31/52
  • PHOTO Illing Company-Germa…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~387 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Illing Company-Germantown (0.0 TCR gap)

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WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville averages 2.7 TCR (83% of the Flexographic printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS benchmark).

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

WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=3 · BLS 3.3

Where WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville falls in its industry

2,001 Flexographic printing (except establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 52 Flexographic printing (except employers in Tennessee.

WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville (387 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville
WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville (387 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

WS Packaging Group, Inc. - Knoxville has more employees than the Flexographic printing (except books, pri median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2020 3.0 2.3 3 1 0
2019 3.9 3.9 6 0 0
2018 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2017 2.3 1.7 4 0 0
2016 3.5 2.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · TN · Knoxville

2,001 Flexographic printing (except books, printing grey goods) 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 Illing Company-Germantown 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Impact Printing 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Navistar Direct marketing 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPS Dallas Cartons 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE JACKSON, TN 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE SRG Global 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4482 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 687 387 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 Construction 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sauer Group Mid-West 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MIKALA-OPI-KALAMAZOO 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 966 Houston, Tx 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE NY0517CN4 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE NWNA - Poland Spring Bottling Hollis 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE BASF Catalysts LLC 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allegro MicroSystems Manchester, NH 387 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.