Absorbent paper stock manufacturing · South Carolina

Beech Island Mill

Beech Island, SC · ~1,237 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Beech Island Mill runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Absorbent paper stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Beech Island Mill: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Absorbent paper stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Beech Island Mill safety composite

Beech Island Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Beech Island Mill: 0.6 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Beech Island Mill's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.6 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Beech Island, SC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Hartsville - Hrtsvlle
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~1,237 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hartsville - Hrtsvlle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Beech Island Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Beech Island Mill averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Absorbent paper stock manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Beech Island Mill TCR series: 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Beech Island Mill falls in its industry

317 Absorbent paper stock manufact establishments

Safer than 86% 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 #7 safest of 11 Absorbent paper stock manufact employers in South Carolina.

Beech Island Mill (1,237 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Beech Island Mill
Beech Island Mill (1,237 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Beech Island Mill has more employees than the Absorbent paper stock manufacturing 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
2024 1.3 0.9 15 2 0
2023 0.7 0.4 7 2 0
2022 0.6 0.2 5 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · SC · Beech Island

317 Absorbent paper stock manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Beech Island, 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 Hartsville - Hrtsvlle 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ICP United Roofing, Eutaw 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Procter & Gamble Paper Products Company 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kapstone Paper and Packaging Corporation 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Continental Tire 1,232 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : GSP1 1,244 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCLEOD HEALTH INC MH100 1,221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmetto Goodwill 1,219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beech Island, SC 1,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAU at Kimberly-Clark Beech Island 517 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAU at Kimberly-Clark 512 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAU @ Kimberly Clark Beech Island 485 FTE
NAT-TCR North American Services Group - Hurricane 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Aparium Hospitality Services 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Irvine Access Floors Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR United Western Industries, Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Francis Medical Center 1,237 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Claire HealthCare 1,237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pappas Family Farms Shop & Farm 1,237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davidson County Government 1,237 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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