Paper and paperboard coating and finishing machinery manufacturing · Rhode Island

Ecological Fibers, Inc

Pawtucket, RI · ~84 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ecological Fibers, Inc runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Paper and paperboard coating and finishing machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ecological Fibers, Inc: 7.9 TCR = 238% of Paper and paperboard coating and finishing machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ecological Fibers, Inc safety composite

Ecological Fibers, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Ecological Fibers, Inc: 7.1 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.7× in 2024

Ecological Fibers, Inc's TCR rose 8.7 from 7.1 in 2017 to 15.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333243 · Pawtucket, RI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 238% of ind

  • DART 13.4 DART
  • RANK P21
  • PHOTO MoCo Engineering & F…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MoCo Engineering & Fabrication (0.2 TCR gap)

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Ecological Fibers, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ecological Fibers, Inc averages 7.9 TCR (238% of the Paper and paperboard coating and finishing machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ecological Fibers, Inc TCR series: 2017=7.1 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=15.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ecological Fibers, Inc falls in its industry

137 Paper and paperboard coating a establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ecological Fibers, Inc (84 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ecological Fibers, Inc
Ecological Fibers, Inc (84 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ecological Fibers, Inc has more employees than the Paper and paperboard coating and finishi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 15.8 13.4 12 1 0
2023 6.3 2.5 5 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2017 7.1 6.1 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333243 · RI · Pawtucket

137 Paper and paperboard coating and finishing machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,610 rated employers in Rhode Island with headcount on file · 79 employers in Pawtucket, RI · 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 MoCo Engineering & Fabrication 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WCIS LLC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Timesavers LLC 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vibra-Pro 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Industrial Division 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winkler Group Ltd 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1221 - North Kingstown 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Uncas International 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Health & Hospice Care of Nursing Placement 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoll Medical Corporation 671 FTE
CITY-NEAR Teknor Apex 545 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bio-Detek 498 FTE
NAT-TCR 041 Rio Bayamon 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix Manufacturing LLC 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Aspen Meadows Resort 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 533020-Katy | TX | 533020 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sandco LLC 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Threds Inc 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpha Insulation Atlanta 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Crest Post Acute 84 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, 2017. 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.