Paper or pulp mill construction · Michigan

Billerud Escanaba Mill

Escanaba, MI · ~866 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Billerud Escanaba Mill runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Paper or pulp mill construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Billerud Escanaba Mill: 6.0 TCR = 205% of Paper or pulp mill construction BLS 2.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Billerud Escanaba Mill safety composite

Billerud Escanaba Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Billerud Escanaba Mill: 0.6 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.13× in 2024

Billerud Escanaba Mill's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.6 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · Escanaba, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 205% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #33/39
  • PHOTO SmitHahn Company Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~866 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SmitHahn Company Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Billerud Escanaba Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Billerud Escanaba Mill averages 6.0 TCR (205% of the Paper or pulp mill construction BLS benchmark).

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

Billerud Escanaba Mill TCR series: 2022=0.6 · 2023=15.1 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 2.9

Where Billerud Escanaba Mill falls in its industry

924 Paper or pulp mill constructio establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 39 Paper or pulp mill constructio employers in Michigan.

Billerud Escanaba Mill (866 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Billerud Escanaba Mill
Billerud Escanaba Mill (866 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Billerud Escanaba Mill has more employees than the Paper or pulp mill construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 2.1 0.8 18 1 0
2023 15.1 5.1 2 131 0
2022 0.6 0.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · MI · Escanaba

924 Paper or pulp mill construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 50 employers in Escanaba, MI · 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 SmitHahn Company Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williams Maintenance LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMS Vans, LLC. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Motors Lansing Delta Township Assembly 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Priority Health - 1239 865 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huron Valley Sinai Hospital 868 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meritor Inc. 870 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ventra Evart LLC 862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Verso Escanaba Mill 879 FTE
CITY-NEAR OSF St Francis Hospital 487 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Francis Hospital and Medical Group 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Menominee Delta Schoolcraft CAA 332 FTE
NAT-TCR Pine Bluff Live Haul 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sarah D Culbertson Memorial Hospital 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TYSXW - Fairfield Inn & Suites - West Knoxville 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St John Lutheran Home 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forest City 866 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District 866 FTE
NAT-SIZE Permian EOR 866 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - STL5 866 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.

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

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