Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mills · Alabama

Essity Professional Hygiene Barton

Cherokee, AL · ~498 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essity Professional Hygiene Barton runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Essity Professional Hygiene Barton: 1.6 TCR = 49% of Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mills BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essity Professional Hygiene Barton safety composite

Essity Professional Hygiene Barton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−2.0

2020→2024

Essity Professional Hygiene Barton injury rate improved

Essity Professional Hygiene Barton's TCR fell 2.0 from 2.9 in 2020 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.9 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 49% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO New Indy Containerbo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~498 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Indy Containerboard Hartford City Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essity Professional Hygiene Barton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essity Professional Hygiene Barton averages 1.6 TCR (49% of the Glassine wrapping paper made in paper mills BLS benchmark).

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

Essity Professional Hygiene Barton TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Essity Professional Hygiene Barton falls in its industry

317 Glassine wrapping paper made i establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Glassine wrapping paper made i employers in Alabama.

Essity Professional Hygiene Barton (498 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Professional Hygiene Barton
Essity Professional Hygiene Barton (498 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Essity Professional Hygiene Barton 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 Fatalities
2024 0.9 0.4 5 0 0
2023 0.9 0.6 5 0 0
2022 1.5 0.9 8 0 0
2021 1.9 1.2 10 0 0
2020 2.9 2.5 14 0 0

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 Metric
NAICS-TCR New Indy Containerboard Hartford City Mill 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rhinelander Paper Unit 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAPP Riceboro Mill - 016 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tile Plant 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tuscaloosa Plant 498 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8100 Debone Koch Foods of AL 497 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alabama Plant 2 497 FTE
STATE-SIZE HealthSouth Corporation 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR FreightCar America 842 FTE
CITY-NEAR FreightCar Alabama, LLC 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essity Professional Hygiene 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Navistar-Cherokee 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Music City Center 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Schulenburg TX 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 640 - Tustin 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Concordia Bom Maintenance 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Metropolitan Mechanical Contractors 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Engineering Testing 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Middlesex 055 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Phoenix E80 Library 498 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.