Pulp and paper (except groundwood, newsprint) combined manufacturing · New York

Cottrell Paper Company, Inc.

Rock City Falls, NY · ~39 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Cottrell Paper Company, Inc. runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pulp and paper (except groundwood, newsprint) combined manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Cottrell Paper Company, Inc.: 8.0 TCR = 243% of Pulp and paper (except groundwood, newsprint) combined manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cottrell Paper Company, Inc. safety composite

Cottrell Paper Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 12% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

7/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

Cottrell Paper Company, Inc.: 4.5 → 16.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

Cottrell Paper Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 12.4 from 4.5 in 2018 to 16.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Rock City Falls, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 243% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #30/32
  • PHOTO vonDrehle Cordova
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: vonDrehle Cordova (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cottrell Paper Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cottrell Paper Company, Inc. averages 8.0 TCR (243% of the Pulp and paper (except groundwood, newsprint) combined manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cottrell Paper Company, Inc. TCR series: 2018=4.5 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=5.9 · 2022=7.6 · 2023=8 · 2024=16.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Cottrell Paper Company, Inc. falls in its industry

317 Pulp and paper (except groundw establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 32 Pulp and paper (except groundw employers in New York.

Cottrell Paper Company, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 Cottrell Paper Company, Inc.
Cottrell Paper Company, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Cottrell Paper Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Pulp and paper (except groundwood, newsp 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
2024 16.9 4.8 5 2 1
2023 8.0 2.7 1 2 0
2022 7.6 7.6 3 0 0
2020 5.9 3.0 2 0 0
2019 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2018 4.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · NY · Rock City Falls

317 Pulp and paper (except groundwood, newsprint) combined manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York 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 vonDrehle Cordova 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR vonDrehle Natchez 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henry Molded Products, Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Woody Hill Farms, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bergen Farms LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora - Oakwood Dairy, LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE MN8 Energy LLC - New York Office 39 FTE
NAT-TCR MCK Haviland 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sidney Regional Medical Center 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Industries - Knoxville, Inc. Kingston Pike Retail Store & Employment Training Rehab Center 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Labconco - Fort Scott 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kerotest Manufacturing Corp. Pittsburgh, PA 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITW SAP - Bedford Wire 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinetop Region One 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electro-Term, Inc. 39 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.