Paper mill · Massachusetts

East Walpole

East Walpole, MA · ~56 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

East Walpole runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper mill workplace, earning a grade D.

East Walpole: 6.4 TCR = 193% of Paper mill BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

East Walpole safety composite

East Walpole scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

East Walpole held a steady TCR band

East Walpole's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.8 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.8 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=10.4 · 2022=9.0 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · East Walpole, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 193% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO Little Rapids Corpor…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Little Rapids Corporation - Shawano Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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East Walpole in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows East Walpole averages 6.4 TCR (193% of the Paper mill BLS benchmark).

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

East Walpole TCR series: 2019=4.8 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=10.4 · 2022=9 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where East Walpole falls in its industry

317 Paper mill establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Paper mill employers in Massachusetts.

East Walpole (56 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 East Walpole
East Walpole (56 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

East Walpole has fewer employees than the Paper mill 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 4.5 3.0 2 1 0
2023 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2022 9.0 7.5 5 1 0
2021 10.4 8.9 7 0 0
2020 5.8 3.9 3 0 0
2019 4.8 3.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · MA · East Walpole

317 Paper mill employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 5 employers in East Walpole, MA · 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 Little Rapids Corporation - Shawano Mill 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cheney Dynos, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mohawk Valley Mill 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frenchtown RTS Packaging - F422 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smolak Farms 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Utilities Fifth Street 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7238_16578 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fontaine Bros. Inc. 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Walpole Site 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR 539 - Walpole 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR 539 Walpole 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Walpole Mill 49 FTE
NAT-TCR Vancrest New Carlisle 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunnyside Dairy, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stevens Point WI FXFE-STE 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ZETIN Contractors, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Environmental Technologies, LLC 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Verst Langley 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1004-12 GoJet STL Inflight 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cipparrone Contracting Inc 56 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, 2019. 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.