Pulp manufacturing (made from bagasse, linters, rags, straw, wastepaper, or wood) without making paper · Washington

Cosmo Specialty Fibers

Cosmopolis, WA · ~151 workers · 5 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

Cosmo Specialty Fibers runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pulp manufacturing (made from bagasse, linters, rags, straw, wastepaper, or wood) without making paper workplace, earning a grade B.

Cosmo Specialty Fibers: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Pulp manufacturing (made from bagasse, linters, rags, straw, wastepaper, or wood) without making paper BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cosmo Specialty Fibers safety composite

Cosmo Specialty Fibers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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%).

Cosmo Specialty Fibers held a steady TCR band

Cosmo Specialty Fibers's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.3 in 2017 to 2.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.3 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322110 · Cosmopolis, WA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Hazen Paper Company …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hazen Paper Company West Plant (0.2 TCR gap)

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Cosmo Specialty Fibers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cosmo Specialty Fibers averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Pulp manufacturing (made from bagasse, linters, rags, straw, wastepaper, or wood) without making paper BLS benchmark).

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

Cosmo Specialty Fibers TCR series: 2017=2.3 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Cosmo Specialty Fibers falls in its industry

46 Pulp manufacturing (made from establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Pulp manufacturing (made from employers in Washington.

Cosmo Specialty Fibers (151 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cosmo Specialty Fibers
Cosmo Specialty Fibers (151 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Cosmo Specialty Fibers has more employees than the Pulp manufacturing (made from bagasse, l median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2021 2.2 1.6 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.4 0.6 2 2 0
2018 5.1 4.0 9 0 0
2017 2.3 1.1 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322110 · WA · Cosmopolis

46 Pulp manufacturing (made from bagasse, linters, rags, straw, wastepaper, or wood) without making paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington 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 Hazen Paper Company West Plant 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Profile Products LLC Conover NC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Pulp I, LLC. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rayonier AM-Fernandina Mill 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE PSE, GTO - Georgetown Operating Base 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flynn BEC LP - Spokane 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE LANXESS Corporation - Kalama 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westport LLC Westport WA 151 FTE
NAT-TCR Nexion Health 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #071 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR UPM Pharmaceuticals 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR OmniSource LLC - Holt 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE MCSCOT 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE 054525-Lax-Greenmead Sta 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howden American Fan Company 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE AWS- Alameda County 151 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.