Paperboard Mill · Arkansas

Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend

Arkansas City, AR · ~351 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paperboard Mill workplace, earning a grade C.

Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend: 3.8 TCR = 116% of Paperboard Mill BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend safety composite

Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend: 1.9 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.9 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322130 · Arkansas City, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 116% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK P24
  • PHOTO AL006 Brewton Bleach…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~351 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AL006 Brewton Bleach Board (0.0 TCR gap)

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Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend averages 3.8 TCR (116% of the Paperboard Mill BLS benchmark).

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

Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=0.5 · 2018=1.4 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=13.6 · 2022=5 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend falls in its industry

181 Paperboard Mill establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend (351 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend
Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend (351 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Clearwater Paper Cypress Bend has more employees than the Paperboard Mill median and a higher 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 3.3 2.3 13 0 0
2023 3.1 2.3 11 0 0
2022 5.0 4.0 8 11 0
2021 13.6 12.5 5 45 0
2020 1.9 1.4 4 3 0
2018 1.4 0.8 4 1 0
2017 0.5 0.0 2 0 0
2016 1.9 1.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · AR · Arkansas City

181 Paperboard Mill employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 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 AL006 Brewton Bleach Board 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3345 Lynchburg Mill Seven Hills 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif Cheektowaga, NY 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt (Target Container), Inc. 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 16 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARKANSAS PROVIDER COALITION, LLC 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bella Vista Property Owners Association 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5706 350 FTE
NAT-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Laurel Highlands, Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mike Owen Fabrication Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Liebe Trucking, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Wauwatosa School District 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakewood 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint-Gobain Abrasives 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eii, Inc. 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice Northcenter - 0710 351 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, 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.