Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) · New Hampshire

Bennington

Bennington, NH · ~144 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bennington runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) workplace, earning a grade D.

Bennington: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bennington safety composite

Bennington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Bennington: 3.1 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

Bennington's TCR rose 1.5 from 3.1 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Bennington, NH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK P12
  • PHOTO East Walpole Mill
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: East Walpole Mill (0.2 TCR gap)

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Bennington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bennington averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) BLS benchmark).

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

Bennington TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Bennington falls in its industry

317 Paper mills (except newsprint, establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bennington (144 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Bennington
Bennington (144 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Bennington has fewer employees than the Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated median and a higher 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 4.6 3.3 7 0 0
2023 5.1 2.5 8 0 0
2022 7.7 6.5 11 2 0
2021 5.2 3.9 6 2 0
2020 8.4 6.5 10 3 0
2019 7.6 3.8 9 3 0
2018 7.4 2.5 8 4 0
2017 5.1 1.9 6 2 0
2016 3.1 1.9 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · NH · Bennington

317 Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,718 rated employers in New Hampshire with headcount on file · 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 East Walpole Mill 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frenchtown RTS Packaging - F422 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Neenah Northeast, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cheney Dynos, Inc 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Hampshire Electric Cooperative - Headquarters 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5472-000002492 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8317 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3401 - West Lebanon Main St 144 FTE
NAT-TCR Miller's Merry Manor 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 187 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Straub Brewery, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plantation Manor Nursing @ Rehabilitation Center, LLC 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE FL-Orlando 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Gift Corp 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE ME Road Crews and Installation 144 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.