Uncoated groundwood paper mills · New York

Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc.

Rochester, NY · ~59 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Uncoated groundwood paper mills workplace, earning a grade C.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
10
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc.'s OSHA Total Case Rate of 2.8 to the Uncoated groundwood paper mills BLS benchmark of 3.3 (86% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc.'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

-50050100 2016201720192020202120232024 1.73.3 Industry benchmarkFlower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 322120.

Where Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. falls in its industry

28 Uncoated groundwood paper mill establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Uncoated groundwood paper mill employers in New York.

Trend analysis for Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc.

Between 2016 and 2024, Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc.'s Total Case Rate worsened from 1.5 to 1.7 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 16% increase across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 10.5, a spread of 10.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. recorded 9 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 10 injuries, 1 illnesses shown on this page for Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 322120 - Uncoated groundwood paper mills.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 115,971 hours worked = 1.72 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. (this establishment) 2.84 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
Paper manufacturing industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 322120
New York state avg (all industries) 4.67 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2023 10.5 7.0 6 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 94.7 94.7 1 0 0
2019 3.3 1.7 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.5 0.0 0 1 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc.'s reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Uncoated groundwood paper mills peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 86% of the Uncoated groundwood paper mills benchmark, Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Uncoated groundwood paper mills sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc.'s safety grade?
Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.8 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Uncoated groundwood paper mills.
How many injuries has Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. reported?
Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. has reported 10 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.