Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) · North Carolina

Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham

Rockingham, NC · ~63 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) workplace, earning a grade B.

Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham safety composite

Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.78× in 2018

Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Rockingham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO Procter & Gamble Pap…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Procter & Gamble Paper Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) BLS benchmark).

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

Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham falls in its industry

317 Paper mills (except newsprint, establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 12 Paper mills (except newsprint, employers in North Carolina.

Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham (63 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham
Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham (63 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham has fewer employees than the Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated 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 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2017 2.9 1.4 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · NC · Rockingham

317 Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 44 employers in Rockingham, 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 Procter & Gamble Paper Products 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Menasha, WI - Paper - B280 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Bond Building Products 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Neenah Filtration Appleton 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith Energy Complex 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Union Power Cooperative - Oakboro 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asheboro Office 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH DURHAM OPERATIONS 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockingham Plant 1,066 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richmond Memorial Hospital 466 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1010 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1010 328 FTE
NAT-TCR 0347 - Bay Shore, Ny 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of Dexter Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rohr Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CN Caguas 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Woodward Printing Services/GIL Shopping News 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piper Plastic Illinois 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE RAFS of Pensacola, Inc 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perrysburg Center 63 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.