Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · North Carolina

27 Catawba

Catawba, NC · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

27 Catawba runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

27 Catawba: 1.0 TCR = 29% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

27 Catawba safety composite

27 Catawba scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Rising injury rate

27 Catawba: 0.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2023

27 Catawba's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.0 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Catawba, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 29% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #3/22
  • PHOTO International Conver…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Converter - Caldwell (0.0 TCR gap)

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27 Catawba in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 27 Catawba averages 1.0 TCR (29% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

27 Catawba TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where 27 Catawba falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 22 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in North Carolina.

27 Catawba (51 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 27 Catawba
27 Catawba (51 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

27 Catawba has fewer employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · NC · Catawba

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 7 employers in Catawba, NC · 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 International Converter - Caldwell 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RLG - Cellotape 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Appvion Operations Appleton, WI 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duro Bag - Walton 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hawksridge Farms, Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington Operations Center 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRB Group North Carolina LLC - Charlotte Division 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE All other sites Gastonia 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba 667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smith Setzer & Sons, Inc. 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR HNCCT01 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR 30 Distribution 36 FTE
NAT-TCR Loyola Center for Health Palos South Campus 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway Solutions, LLC - Salt Lake City Branch 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dart Container Polymers 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KVC Kansas Lawrence 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hanwha Advanced Materials America LLC. Monroe 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE AFW Foundry 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPA Tampa 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE 21U2 51 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.