Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mills · Alabama

Essity Professional Hygiene

Name: Essity Professional Hygiene Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Cherokee, AL · ~481 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Essity Professional Hygiene runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Essity Professional Hygiene: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essity Professional Hygiene safety composite

Essity Professional Hygiene scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−1.4

2016→2018

Essity Professional Hygiene injury rate improved

Essity Professional Hygiene's TCR fell 1.4 from 2.9 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Cherokee, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

DART 1.6 DART
RANK #7/7
PHOTO Gold Bond Building P…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 30 inj
SIZE ~481 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gold Bond Building Products- Pryor (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Essity Professional Hygiene averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mills BLS benchmark).

Essity Professional Hygiene TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Essity Professional Hygiene falls in its industry

317 Glassine wrapping paper made i establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Glassine wrapping paper made i employers in Alabama.

Essity Professional Hygiene (481 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Essity Professional Hygiene has more employees than the Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mi 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
2018	1.6	1.6	8	0
2017	1.5	1.1	8	0
2016	2.9	2.3	14	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · AL · Cherokee

317 Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 8 employers in Cherokee, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Gold Bond Building Products- Pryor	PRYOR, OK	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ahlstrom	MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS, PA	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cascades Tissue Group - Rockingham	ROCKINGHAM, NC	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hutchinson - Paper - B282	HUTCHINSON, KS	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kohler Co. - Huntsville	HUNTSVILLE	481 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Decatur 01 Chem	DECATUR	480 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lockheed Martin Corporation US AL Troy 299 Airport Blvd (5209)	TROY	483 FTE
STATE-SIZE	JACKSON, AL	JACKSON	478 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FreightCar America	Cherokee	842 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FreightCar Alabama, LLC	Cherokee	531 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Essity Professional Hygiene Barton	Cherokee	498 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Navistar-Cherokee	Cherokee	273 FTE
NAT-TCR	Mercy Medical Group, Inc	Springfield, MA	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Partsmaster - Northgate	Irving, TX	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gallatin Sheet Plant	Gallatin, TN	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Naperville - Warehouse	Naperville, IL	2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	US - Supply Chain : 0002	Kansas City, MO	481 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Alex Products, Inc, - Ridgeville Plant	Ridgeville Corners, OH	481 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NJ0392CB6	Robbinsville, NJ	481 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kimberly- Clark Jenks	Jenks, OK	481 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.