Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills · Wisconsin

Biron Mill

Wisconsin Rapids, WI · ~362 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Biron Mill runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills workplace, earning a grade C.

Biron Mill: 3.0 TCR = 91% of Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Biron Mill safety composite

Biron Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Biron Mill: 2.4 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2018

Biron Mill's TCR rose 1.0 from 2.4 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Wisconsin Rapids, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #24/41
  • PHOTO Clearwater Paper Lew…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~362 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clearwater Paper Lewiston CPD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Biron Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Biron Mill averages 3.0 TCR (91% of the Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills BLS benchmark).

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

Biron Mill TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Biron Mill falls in its industry

317 Groundwood paper, coated, made establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 41 Groundwood paper, coated, made employers in Wisconsin.

Biron Mill (362 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Biron Mill
Biron Mill (362 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Biron Mill has more employees than the Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper 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
2018 3.3 2.5 10 2 0
2017 3.3 2.8 12 0 0
2016 2.4 0.8 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · WI · Wisconsin Rapids

317 Groundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 70 employers in Wisconsin Rapids, WI · 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 Clearwater Paper Lewiston CPD 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Five Star Sheets, LLC. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR vonDrehle Las Vegas 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thilmany Mill 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Global Finishing Solutions- Osseo, WI 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE Master Lock Company LLC Corporate Headquarters 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE Generac Power Systems Inc. 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE WAUSAU MAIN CAMPUS 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wisconsin Rapids Mill 962 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Riverview Hospital & Clinics, Inc. 631 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Riverview Hospital622 593 FTE
CITY-NEAR McCain Foods Plant #8 525 FTE
NAT-TCR Senior Aerospace Connecticut 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lunseth Plumbing & Heating 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Concrete Materials, Inc. Bogota Plant 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Armour 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4818-48180052-111 Riverbend Dr-Wc 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Health Physicians Lorain 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE Union Grove 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jill Acquisition LLC - Headquarters 362 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: 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.