Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) products made in paper mills · South Carolina

Eastover Mill

Eastover, SC · ~691 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eastover Mill runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) products made in paper mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Eastover Mill: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) products made in paper mills BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eastover Mill safety composite

Eastover Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

Eastover Mill: 0.4 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 0.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Eastover Mill's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.4 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Eastover, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO Marlboro
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~691 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marlboro (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eastover Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eastover Mill averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) products made in paper mills BLS benchmark).

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

Eastover Mill TCR series: 2017=0.4 · 2018=0.5 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Eastover Mill falls in its industry

317 Paper (except newsprint, uncoa establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 Paper (except newsprint, uncoa employers in South Carolina.

Eastover Mill (691 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 Eastover Mill
Eastover Mill (691 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Eastover Mill has more employees than the Paper (except newsprint, uncoated ground median and a lower 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
2021 0.9 0.0 5 0 0
2020 0.4 0.0 3 0 0
2019 0.8 0.3 6 0 0
2018 0.5 0.0 4 0 0
2017 0.4 0.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · SC · Eastover

317 Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) products made in paper mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Eastover, SC · 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 Marlboro 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport Paper - B352 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Angleboard / Reddi-Pac 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimberly-Clark Professional 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZSPA 692 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capsugel 693 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anmed Health North Campus 693 FTE
STATE-SIZE SSA-COOPER,LLC 694 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastover SC Mill 676 FTE
CITY-NEAR WATEREE STEAM PLANT 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR International Paper Eastover 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastover 43 FTE
NAT-TCR Texas Operations 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pasadena Flowserve Pumps QRC (DEP) 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NAIS- Hurricane, WV 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bear Construction Company 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 8805555-Sam's FC 691 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilderness Resort & Hotel, Inc 691 FTE
NAT-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain FWN 691 FTE
NAT-SIZE MetroPower Inc 691 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.