Paper towels made in paper mills · Ohio

Essity Operations Wausau, LLC.

Middletown, OH · ~135 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essity Operations Wausau, LLC. runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paper towels made in paper mills workplace, earning a grade C.

Essity Operations Wausau, LLC.: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Paper towels made in paper mills BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essity Operations Wausau, LLC. safety composite

Essity Operations Wausau, LLC. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.1

2018→2023

Essity Operations Wausau, LLC. injury rate improved

Essity Operations Wausau, LLC.'s TCR fell 4.1 from 5.4 in 2018 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.4 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Middletown, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #14/21
  • PHOTO Finch Paper
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Finch Paper (0.1 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 3.1 TCR (94% 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: 2018=5.4 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=3 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Essity Operations Wausau, LLC. falls in its industry

317 Paper towels made in paper mil establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 21 Paper towels made in paper mil employers in Ohio.

Essity Operations Wausau, LLC. (135 employees, TCR 3.1) 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. (135 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Essity Operations Wausau, LLC. has fewer 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
2023 1.3 0.7 2 0 0
2022 4.9 3.5 6 1 0
2021 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2020 3.0 2.3 4 0 0
2019 2.6 1.3 4 0 0
2018 5.4 3.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · OH · Middletown

317 Paper towels made in paper mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 125 employers in Middletown, OH · 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 Finch Paper 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essity Professional Hygiene 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chattanooga Mill 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Five Star Sheets, LLC. 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Acorn Farms - Sparta 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strawser Central Construction 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Legacy Roofing Services, LLC 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Valley Electrical Services 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp. Middletown Works 2,339 FTE
CITY-NEAR AK Steel - Middletown Works 2,288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 870 - EFC1 Monroe, OH 1,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Medical Center 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR Johnstown #012 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Advantage Tank Lines 20054 Somerset 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CAMARY-AEG-MARYSVILLE 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR BAL Baltimore 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4223-M1300 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4223-M3600 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE 36 Highland Tape 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poly-Med, Inc. 135 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.