Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) · Wisconsin

Essity Professional Hygiene

Name: Essity Professional Hygiene Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Menasha, WI · ~208 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Essity Professional Hygiene runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) workplace, earning a grade C.

Essity Professional Hygiene: 3.2 TCR = 96% of Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essity Professional Hygiene safety composite

Essity Professional Hygiene scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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).

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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 Professional Hygiene: 2.5 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2023

Essity Professional Hygiene's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.5 in 2021 to 3.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Menasha, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 96% of ind

DART 3.1 DART
RANK #25/41
PHOTO Finch Paper
BOOK 3y book
INJ 20 inj
SIZE ~208 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Finch Paper (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Essity Professional Hygiene averages 3.2 TCR (96% of the Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) BLS benchmark).

Essity Professional Hygiene TCR series: 2021=2.5 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Essity Professional Hygiene falls in its industry

317 Pulp mills producing paper (ex establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 41 Pulp mills producing paper (ex employers in Wisconsin.

Essity Professional Hygiene (208 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 Pulp mills producing paper (except groun 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
2023	3.6	3.1	8
2022	3.4	2.9	7
2021	2.5	1.5	5

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · WI · Menasha

317 Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Finch Paper	GLENS FALLS, NY	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Chattanooga Mill	CHATTANOOGA, TN	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Essity Operations Wausau, LLC.	MIDDLETOWN, OH	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	GBMD	GREEN BAY, WI	3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	The Boldt Company - Central	WAUKESHA	208 FTE
STATE-SIZE	IPG-Menasha	MENAHSA	208 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WI001 Green Bay, WI SPG	GREEN BAY	208 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lucas Milhaupt Milwaukee	CUDAHY	208 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Faith Technologies	Menasha	2,712 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LSC Communications Menasha Print	Menasha	462 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lakeside Book Company - Menasha	Menasha	337 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Transcontinental Packaging Menasha	Menasha	280 FTE
NAT-TCR	Exemplary Foam	Elkhart, IN	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ducommun - Parsons	Parsons, KS	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	855 Pine Street	Burlington, VT	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Robinson and Sons Construction Services, Inc.	Haleyville, AL	3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Taylor Morrison Orlando	Orlando, FL	208 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Confer Plastics, Inc.	North Tonawanda, Ny, NY	208 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Charlotte Marriott City Center	Charlotte, NC	208 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Albany Industries - Galax	Galax, VA	208 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. 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.