Paper or pulp mill construction · Michigan

Billerud

Quinnesec, MI · ~433 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Billerud runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Paper or pulp mill construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Billerud: 1.0 TCR = 33% of Paper or pulp mill construction BLS 2.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Billerud safety composite

Billerud scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Billerud held a steady TCR band

Billerud's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.1 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.1 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · Quinnesec, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 33% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #11/39
  • PHOTO 188354 Ocotillo Mode…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~433 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 188354 Ocotillo Modernization Project (0.0 TCR gap)

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Billerud in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Billerud averages 1.0 TCR (33% 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 TCR series: 2022=1.1 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 2.9

Where Billerud falls in its industry

924 Paper or pulp mill constructio establishments

Safer than 67% 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 #11 safest of 39 Paper or pulp mill constructio employers in Michigan.

Billerud (433 employees, TCR 1.0) 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
Billerud (433 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Billerud has more employees than the Paper or pulp mill construction median and a lower 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 1.3 1.1 6 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 1 1 0
2022 1.1 0.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · MI · Quinnesec

924 Paper or pulp mill construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 6 employers in Quinnesec, 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 188354 Ocotillo Modernization Project 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SP&J General Contractors, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Headquarters 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steinberger Construction Inc 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hydaker-Wheatlake - Michigan Statewide 432 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hi-Lex Controls (HCIH) 432 FTE
STATE-SIZE McLaren Health Care 432 FTE
STATE-SIZE OPERATIONS CENTER-DTMB 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quinnesec Mill 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Breitung Township 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Project Service Inc. - Billerud Quinnesec 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Verso Qinnesec Mill 60 FTE
NAT-TCR HICAPS, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR International Paper Franklin Mill 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chapel Hill Operations 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Unchained Labs 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE BEI Construction Inc 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wabash Jonestown 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Up North Plastics 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital 433 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.