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

Hazen Paper Company West Plant

Holyoke, MA · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hazen Paper Company West Plant runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pulp manufacturing (i.e., chemical, mechanical, or semichemical processes) without making paper workplace, earning a grade B.

Hazen Paper Company West Plant: 2.2 TCR = 66% 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 West Plant safety composite

Hazen Paper Company West Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hazen Paper Company West Plant: 0.0 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Hazen Paper Company West Plant's TCR rose 6.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322110 · Holyoke, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P46
  • PHOTO Columbia Pulp I, LLC.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Columbia Pulp I, LLC. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hazen Paper Company West Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hazen Paper Company West Plant averages 2.2 TCR (66% 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 West Plant TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hazen Paper Company West Plant falls in its industry

46 Pulp manufacturing (i.e., chem establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hazen Paper Company West Plant (35 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 West Plant
Hazen Paper Company West Plant (35 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Hazen Paper Company West Plant has fewer 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 6.6 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 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 Columbia Pulp I, LLC. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cosmo Specialty Fibers 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rayonier AM-Fernandina Mill 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RYAM-Fernandina Mill 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ethos Fitchburg 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Resinate, Inc. - Worcester 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE TIS - MA 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supreme Systems, Inc. NE 35 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 RDD Jackson 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LANXESS Corporation Bushy Park 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Smithfield Foods - Peru 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PermaBASE Building Products, LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lenoir Assisted Living 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE William C Reynolds Company, Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE ESC Los Angeles 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Team Brandt, LLC - 3654 S. Willow Fresno 35 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.