Filters, paper, made from purchased paper · North Carolina

Essentra Filters products

Greensboro, NC · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essentra Filters products runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Filters, paper, made from purchased paper workplace, earning a grade D.

Essentra Filters products: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Filters, paper, made from purchased paper BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essentra Filters products safety composite

Essentra Filters products scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Essentra Filters products: 3.1 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Essentra Filters products's TCR rose 2.2 from 3.1 in 2018 to 5.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322299 · Greensboro, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO McAuliffe Paper, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McAuliffe Paper, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essentra Filters products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essentra Filters products averages 4.2 TCR (128% of the Filters, paper, made from purchased paper BLS benchmark).

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

Essentra Filters products TCR series: 2018=3.1 · 2020=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Essentra Filters products falls in its industry

236 Filters, paper, made from purc establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Filters, paper, made from purc employers in North Carolina.

Essentra Filters products (93 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essentra Filters products
Essentra Filters products (93 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Essentra Filters products has more employees than the Filters, paper, made from purchased pape median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2020 5.3 0.0 3 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322299 · NC · Greensboro

236 Filters, paper, made from purchased paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 920 employers in Greensboro, NC · 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 McAuliffe Paper, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rockline Industries 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CertainTeed Gypsum 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6131_14551 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tri Pointe Homes Charlotte 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP-Mid Atlantic LLC 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Exterior Systems 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lightserve Corporation 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR MHCMH-Cone-Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital 3,806 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government - All Employees 3,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government 3,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCGRE - GREENSBORO HUB 2,447 FTE
NAT-TCR Hand Center - Greenville 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 55806 Beaverton 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sturdevant Companies - 52 Refinish Supply Center 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR UFP Mid Atlantic LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE OH201 West Chester Trey 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newnan, Sprayberry 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Joaquin County Information Services Department 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2025 Coborn's Mitchell 93 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: 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.