Toilet paper made from purchased paper · North Carolina

Cardinal Tissue C1

Spindale, NC · ~50 workers · 6 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

Cardinal Tissue C1 runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Toilet paper made from purchased paper workplace, earning a grade A.

Cardinal Tissue C1: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Toilet paper made from purchased paper BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Tissue C1 safety composite

Cardinal Tissue C1 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Cardinal Tissue C1: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

Cardinal Tissue C1's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322291 · Spindale, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO KPR US LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KPR US LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Tissue C1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Tissue C1 averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Toilet paper made from purchased paper BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal Tissue C1 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Cardinal Tissue C1 falls in its industry

113 Toilet paper made from purchas establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Toilet paper made from purchas employers in North Carolina.

Cardinal Tissue C1 (50 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cardinal Tissue C1
Cardinal Tissue C1 (50 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Cardinal Tissue C1 has fewer employees than the Toilet paper made from purchased paper median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 2.5 1.2 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2021 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322291 · NC · Spindale

113 Toilet paper made from purchased paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 10 employers in Spindale, NC · 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 KPR US LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beech Island, SC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nice-Pak Manufacturing Facility 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimberly Clark Conway 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Terrell and Johnny Williams 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wadesboro Hatchery / Transp 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Region Office (Cary) 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE WEMC - Youngsville 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Isothermal Community College 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watts Regulator Co. (Spindale) 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rutherford Life Services - Fairground Road 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watts - Spindale 46 FTE
NAT-TCR Fugro USA Marine - Norfolk 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 230047 - Lima Store 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilkins Linen & Dust Control Service 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Van Horn Construction Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Star Equipment Ltd - Des Moines IA 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Darboy 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Simcote, Inc. - OH 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owen Mumford USA Inc. 50 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. 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.