Industry profile · NAICS 322219

Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard

Workplace injury rates across 141 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

141
Employers
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
BLS benchmark
2,249
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard average 4.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.3 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.

4.4
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.3
BLS national benchmark
141
employers reporting
2,249
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard Safety Data Reveals

The Fiber tubes made from purchased paperboard sector (NAICS 322219) encompasses 141 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 2,249 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.4 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 4.4 is higher than 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 Fiber tubes made from purchased 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

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Greif (Ip Salt Lake City) Salt Lake City, UT B 2.3
Easton Easton, PA B 2.2
Austell Tube and Core Austell, GA B 2.2
Solo Cup Company Chicago Chicago, IL B 2.2
Dalton Tube Plant 417 Dalton, GA B 2.2
250 Mason Road La Vergne, TN B 2.2
SOLUT! Lewis Center, OH B 2.1
Clearwater Paper Corporation Elwood, IL B 2.1
Corinth Tube Plant Corinth, MS B 2.1
Nagel Paper- Georgia Calhoun, GA B 2.0
Seda North America, Inc. Mount Pleasant, WI B 2.0
Aspen Products, Inc. Macon, GA B 2.0
Greif Phoenix, AZ B 1.9
Greif (IP Bay Minette) Bay Minette, AL B 1.9
Creative Converting Clintonville, WI B 1.8
KY041 Bowling Green (Dixie) Bowling Green, KY B 1.7
Huhtamaki Batavia Batavia, OH B 1.7
Kernersville Tube Plant Kernersville, NC B 1.7
Huhtamaki Goodyear, AZ B 1.7
Caraustar Industries, Inc. Rock Hill, SC A 1.6
Bay Minette Tube Plant Bay Minette, AL A 1.5
Caraustar Atlanta, TX Atlanta, TX A 1.5
Caraustar Okemah, OK Okemah, OK A 1.3
Greif Inc. (Bay Minette Tube Plant) Bay Minette, AL A 1.3
Caraustar Industrial and Consumer Products Group Arlington, TX A 1.2
Minerva Tube Plant Minerva, OH A 1.2
Chicago Mailing Tube Co. Chicago, IL A 1.2
OX Paper Tube MA Holliston, MA A 1.0
Tiffin Assembly Plant Tiffin, OH A 0.9
Franklin Ky Tube Plant Franklin, KY A 0.9
Carrollton - D004 Carrollton, TX A 0.8
Huhtamaki De Soto De Soto, KS A 0.7
Tetra Pak Inc. Denton, TX A 0.7
Huhtamaki Inc. Batavia, OH A 0.7
Caraustar Salt Lake City Tube Plant Salt Lake City, UT A 0.7
Huhtamaki De Soto Desoto, KS A 0.6
Box Form Inc. Chicago, IL A 0.6
Greif Minerva Minerva, OH A 0.5
Murfreesboro - D032 Murfreesboro, TN A 0.5
Allstate Paper Box Company Newark, NJ A 0.4
Q Sales & Leasing Hazel Crest, IL C 0.0
GREIF Meridian, MS C 0.0
Greif (IP Palatka) Palatka, FL C 0.0
Rondo of America Naugatuck, CT C 0.0
Burt Rigid Box Oneonta, NY C 0.0
Greif Johnsonville Paper Tube Johnsonville, SC C 0.0
Greif - Lithonia Lithonia, GA C 0.0
Ohio Paper Tube Co Canton, OH C 0.0
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This sector averages 4.4 against a BLS benchmark of 3.3 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.