SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY is a paper (except newsprint) mills employer in RICHMOND, VA. Federal records show 7 OSHA inspections with 6 violations and $23,390 in penalties. All data sourced from public federal enforcement records.
Data sourced from OSHA, DOL WHD, MSHA, EPA ECHO, NLRB, FMCSA, OFLC, BLS, SAM.gov, CMS, USAspending, CPSC, NHTSA, and the UVA Corporate Prosecution Registry. Last updated: May 1, 2026.
SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY
1850 COMMERCE ROAD, RICHMOND, VA, 23224
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Industry context
Within the paper (except newsprint) mills industry in VA, SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY ranks in the 76th percentile of OSHA violation frequency across 46 comparable establishments.
OSHA penalty totals rank in the 89th percentile of the same peer group. Inspection frequency ranks in the 87th percentile.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports an industry-average Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) of 2.9 for the paper (except newsprint) mills sector, with a Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred (DART) rate of 2.
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- SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY has 7 OSHA inspections on record with 6 violations and $23,390 in total penalties.
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- SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY operates in the paper (except newsprint) mills industry. The industry average Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) is 2.9.
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This profile aggregates federal enforcement records on SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY of RICHMOND, VA from 17 federal data sources. Records were found in 4 sources: OSHA workplace safety inspections, EPA ECHO environmental compliance, NLRB labor relations cases, and BLS industry safety benchmarks. The remaining 13 sources were checked and found no matching records: WHD, MSHA, OFLC, OFCCP, FMCSA, USAspending, SAM.gov, CMS, CPSC, NHTSA, UVA, SEC enforcement, SEC facts.
Establishments are matched across agencies using normalized employer name, state, and ZIP code. The dataset was last refreshed on May 1, 2026. OSHA accident records on file for SONOCO PRODUCTS COMPANY include 1 hospitalization.
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