Papermill · South Carolina

4527 Cowpens Paper Mill

Cowpens, SC · ~85 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4527 Cowpens Paper Mill runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Papermill workplace, earning a grade A.

4527 Cowpens Paper Mill: 0.7 TCR = 20% of Papermill BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4527 Cowpens Paper Mill safety composite

4527 Cowpens Paper Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

4527 Cowpens Paper Mill: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 0.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2022

4527 Cowpens Paper Mill's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Cowpens, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO Corporate
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corporate (0.0 TCR gap)

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4527 Cowpens Paper Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4527 Cowpens Paper Mill averages 0.7 TCR (20% of the Papermill BLS benchmark).

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

4527 Cowpens Paper Mill TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where 4527 Cowpens Paper Mill falls in its industry

317 Papermill establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 11 Papermill employers in South Carolina.

4527 Cowpens Paper Mill (85 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 4527 Cowpens Paper Mill
4527 Cowpens Paper Mill (85 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

4527 Cowpens Paper Mill has fewer employees than the Papermill median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2022 0.9 0.9 0 1 0
2021 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · SC · Cowpens

317 Papermill employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Cowpens, SC · 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 Corporate 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scarborough RTS Packaging - F427 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Procter & Gamble Paper Products Company Mehoopany Plant 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR vonDrehle Corporate 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pee Dee Electric 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trident Construction, LLC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charleston, SC HVAC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paragon Site Work Constructors 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC11 DC11 COWPENS SC 1,195 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC11 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cowpens - 600 Webber Road 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mermet 170 FTE
NAT-TCR 2133 Gallatin Sheet Plant 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kyocera International Fremont 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR US - Branch Network : 0158 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR PA - GEN COMM (Camp Hill-381) 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2910 Hazleton Fold-Pak 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6033 Frenchtown RTS 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue River Wood Products 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0034-0034-02831 85 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.