Pulp manufacturing (i.e., chemical, mechanical, or semichemical processes) without making paper · Massachusetts

Hazen Paper Company

Holyoke, MA · ~189 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hazen Paper Company runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pulp manufacturing (i.e., chemical, mechanical, or semichemical processes) without making paper workplace, earning a grade D.

Hazen Paper Company: 4.6 TCR = 141% of Pulp manufacturing (i.e., chemical, mechanical, or semichemical processes) without making paper BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hazen Paper Company safety composite

Hazen Paper Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−1.9

2022→2024

Hazen Paper Company injury rate improved

Hazen Paper Company's TCR fell 1.9 from 4.4 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.4 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322110 · Holyoke, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 141% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK P22
  • PHOTO Smurfit Kappa Houston
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smurfit Kappa Houston (0.2 TCR gap)

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Hazen Paper Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hazen Paper Company averages 4.6 TCR (141% of the Pulp manufacturing (i.e., chemical, mechanical, or semichemical processes) without making paper BLS benchmark).

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

Hazen Paper Company TCR series: 2022=4.4 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Hazen Paper Company falls in its industry

46 Pulp manufacturing (i.e., chem establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hazen Paper Company (189 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hazen Paper Company
Hazen Paper Company (189 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Hazen Paper Company has more employees than the Pulp manufacturing (i.e., chemical, mech median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 2.5 1.2 4 0 0
2023 7.1 1.2 5 7 0
2022 4.4 2.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322110 · MA · Holyoke

46 Pulp manufacturing (i.e., chemical, mechanical, or semichemical processes) without making paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 92 employers in Holyoke, MA · 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 Smurfit Kappa Houston 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL335 Foley Cellulose 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schwartz Manufacturing Company 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fox River Fiber 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Waltham 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE 857-NiSource-Springfield MA 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monogram Gourmet Foods, LLC - 301 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boston 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holyoke Medical Center 1,405 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISO New England Inc. 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DBO7 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Providence Behavioral Hlth Hosp 335 FTE
NAT-TCR Rapid City Service Center 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Albany 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Scott Highlands Middle School 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AerSale Goodyear Aircraft MRO Operations Center 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Frozen Foods SC 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fallbrook 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kokosing Alberici Traylor, LLC 189 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. 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.