Kraft paper stock manufacturing · Wisconsin

Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill

Menasha, WI · ~229 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Kraft paper stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill: 4.8 TCR = 144% of Kraft paper stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill safety composite

Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−3.1

2018→2020

Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill injury rate improved

Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill's TCR fell 3.1 from 7.4 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.4 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Menasha, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 144% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #34/41
  • PHOTO Dunn Paper - Ladysmith
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~229 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dunn Paper - Ladysmith (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill averages 4.8 TCR (144% of the Kraft paper stock manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill TCR series: 2018=7.4 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill falls in its industry

317 Kraft paper stock manufacturin establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 41 Kraft paper stock manufacturin employers in Wisconsin.

Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill (229 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 North America - Menasha Papermill
Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill (229 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill has more employees than the Kraft paper stock manufacturing 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
2020 4.3 2.4 9 0 0
2019 2.5 2.1 5 1 0
2018 7.4 2.2 8 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · WI · Menasha

317 Kraft paper stock manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 55 employers in Menasha, WI · 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 Dunn Paper - Ladysmith 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dunn Paper-Natural Dam LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knowlton Technologies 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Port Townsend Paper Corporation 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE C. D. Smith Construction 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stoughton Trailers LLC Plant 5 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arow Global Corp 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fitchburg - Main Store 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Faith Technologies 2,712 FTE
CITY-NEAR LSC Communications Menasha Print 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside Book Company - Menasha 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR Transcontinental Packaging Menasha 280 FTE
NAT-TCR Augustana Brookside Senior Living 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TST Construction Services, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pride Frame 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Thrift Books Global, LLC (Baltimore, MD) 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Experient Inc. - Frederick 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dedicated - Tar Heel Shop and Office 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Modern Maturity Center 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joy Global Underground LLC- Winfield 229 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, 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.