Paper towels made in paper mills · Kentucky

Essity Operations Wausau LLC

Harrodsburg, KY · ~368 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essity Operations Wausau LLC runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paper towels made in paper mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Essity Operations Wausau LLC: 2.2 TCR = 67% of Paper towels made in paper mills BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essity Operations Wausau LLC safety composite

Essity Operations Wausau LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

Essity Operations Wausau LLC: 1.4 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

Essity Operations Wausau LLC's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.4 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Harrodsburg, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 67% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Richmond- Paper - B312
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~368 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Richmond- Paper - B312 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essity Operations Wausau LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essity Operations Wausau LLC averages 2.2 TCR (67% of the Paper towels made in paper mills BLS benchmark).

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

Essity Operations Wausau LLC TCR series: 2017=1.4 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=2 · 2020=3 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Essity Operations Wausau LLC falls in its industry

317 Paper towels made in paper mil establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Paper towels made in paper mil employers in Kentucky.

Essity Operations Wausau LLC (368 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Essity Operations Wausau LLC
Essity Operations Wausau LLC (368 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Essity Operations Wausau LLC has more employees than the Paper towels made in paper mills 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 1.9 1.1 6 1 0
2023 1.1 0.3 4 0 0
2022 2.8 0.6 7 3 0
2020 3.0 2.0 9 0 0
2019 2.0 1.7 7 0 0
2018 3.3 1.4 12 0 0
2017 1.4 0.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · KY · Harrodsburg

317 Paper towels made in paper mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 19 employers in Harrodsburg, KY · 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 Richmond- Paper - B312 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Munising 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hollingsworth and Vose Co. Easton Mill 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ND Paper 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE KTM 368 FTE
STATE-SIZE 709 368 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Kentucky Power Cooperative 369 FTE
STATE-SIZE Automotive Steering Columns, LLC 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. 1,383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hitachi Astemo 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corning 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR 519 216 FTE
NAT-TCR Reeves Piedmont Region 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR OAG 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Holy Family Manor 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CORP-NHI-CORPORATE 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 099 Corp 368 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Bernardino Family Y 368 FTE
NAT-SIZE Technical Center 368 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati 368 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, 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.