Paper towels made from purchased paper · New York

Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford

Waterford, NY · ~123 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Paper towels made from purchased paper workplace, earning a grade A.

Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Paper towels made from purchased paper BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford safety composite

Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford: 0.6 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.6 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322291 · Waterford, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO First Quality Products
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Quality Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Paper towels made from purchased paper BLS benchmark).

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

Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford falls in its industry

113 Paper towels made from purchas establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Paper towels made from purchas employers in New York.

Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford (123 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford
Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford (123 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Waterford has more employees than the Paper towels 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
2018 2.0 0.0 3 0 0
2017 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2016 0.6 0.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322291 · NY · Waterford

113 Paper towels made from purchased paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 23 employers in Waterford, NY · 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 First Quality Products 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Quality Baby Products NE 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Neenah Cold Spring Facility 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edgewell Personal Care 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatzel & Buehler Inc. - New York 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA NY Rochester Goodway 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Virginia Dare Extract Co., Inc. 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jamestown Container Corporation 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR MPM Waterford 1,046 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterford Paper Machine 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4100 EAST REGION-WATERFORD 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greg Beeche Logistics LLC 93 FTE
NAT-TCR KC Company Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hardy Leasing Company 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JRW Logistics Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sales - Section 33 - Schaumburg, IL 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Lenox on the Lake 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skyline Corporation 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE CB117 - Dade County, FL-Core 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE MS - Corpus Christi, TX - 5CCT1 123 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.