Industry profile · NAICS 322211
Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard
Workplace injury rates across 1,214 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.
- 1,214
- Employers
- 3.0
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- BLS benchmark
- 14,538
- Injuries
The industry picture
Employers in Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard average 3.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.
- 3.0
- avg TCR · reporting employers
- 3.3
- BLS national benchmark
- 1,214
- employers reporting
- 14,538
- recordable injuries
OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.
What Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard Safety Data Reveals
The Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard sector (NAICS 322211) encompasses 1,214 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 14,538 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 3.0 is below the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.
The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
Employers in this industry, by injury rate
Page 2 of 29| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viking Paper Corporation | Toledo, OH | F | 8.9 |
| GMPC | Massillon, OH | F | 8.7 |
| JaMar Packaging | West Chicago, IL | F | 8.6 |
| Massachusetts Container Coporation | Marlborough, MA | F | 8.5 |
| New England Wooden Ware Corp | Gardner, MA | F | 8.4 |
| Volk Packaging Corporation | Biddeford, ME | F | 8.4 |
| Harvest Container Company | Lindsay, CA | F | 8.3 |
| Lakeway Container, Inc | Morristown, TN | F | 8.2 |
| ReadyOne Industries- 11460 Pellicano Dr | El Paso, TX | F | 8.1 |
| International Paper - San Leandro Sheet Plant | San Leandro, CA | F | 8.1 |
| CBC | Orting, WA | F | 8.1 |
| Milwaukee, Wi | Milwaukee, WI | F | 8.1 |
| International Paper - Lexington Container | Lexington, KY | F | 8.0 |
| Pratt (Love Box) LLC - Lincoln | Lincoln, NE | F | 7.9 |
| GA | Carrollton, GA | F | 7.9 |
| Arvco Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo, MI | F | 7.8 |
| Syracuse, Ny | Syracuse, NY | F | 7.8 |
| CA345 LaMirada Corrugated | La Mirada, CA | F | 7.6 |
| St Marys Box Company Inc | St Marys, PA | F | 7.6 |
| Spokane Packaging | Spokane Valley, WA | F | 7.5 |
| West Texas Container | El Paso, TX | F | 7.5 |
| Plant Facility - Braniff - 01 | Boise, ID | F | 7.5 |
| Opus Packaging - New Bremen | New Bremen, OH | F | 7.5 |
| Sheets Unlimited | Renton, WA | F | 7.5 |
| Connecticut Container Corp | North Haven, CT | F | 7.5 |
| HQ | Plymouth, IN | F | 7.4 |
| Fort Payne | Fort Payne, AL | F | 7.3 |
| Watertown Box | Watertown, SD | F | 7.3 |
| AGE El Paso Plant | El Paso, TX | F | 7.3 |
| Peachtree Packaging, Inc. | Lawrenceville, GA | F | 7.2 |
| Rand-Whitney Boylston | Boylston, MA | F | 7.2 |
| Tucson Container Corp. | Tucson, AZ | F | 7.2 |
| NAPP Vineland | Vineland, NJ | F | 7.2 |
| Multiwall Sheridan a division of Signode Industrial Group | Sheridan, AR | F | 7.2 |
| OH017 Lebanon, OH Corrugated (PAX) | Lebanon, OH | F | 7.2 |
| Main Plant | Vernon, CA | F | 7.1 |
| Jacksonville, Fl | Jacksonville, FL | F | 7.1 |
| Commonwealth Packaging Corporation | Chicopee, MA | F | 7.1 |
| Kittrich Corporation | Pomona, CA | F | 7.0 |
| Rda Container Corporation | Rochester, NY | F | 7.0 |
| GA084 McDonough Mailers | Mcdonough, GA | F | 7.0 |
| NAPP Lowell | Lowell, MA | F | 7.0 |
| NorthStar Sheets | Cottage Grove, MN | F | 7.0 |
| 4632 Coal Center PA | Coal Center, PA | F | 6.9 |
| NAPP Asheboro - 005 | Asheboro, NC | F | 6.9 |
| D&D Packaging | Olive Branch, MS | F | 6.9 |
| GA061 Augusta Container | Augusta, GA | F | 6.8 |
| Gaylord Brothers, Inc. | Syracuse, NY | F | 6.7 |
| Wilton | Wilton, IA | F | 6.7 |
| Tyoga Container Company | Tioga, PA | F | 6.7 |
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