Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Massachusetts

Hazen Paper - Main Plant

Holyoke, MA · ~151 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hazen Paper - Main Plant runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hazen Paper - Main Plant: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hazen Paper - Main Plant safety composite

Hazen Paper - Main Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 - Main Plant: 1.3 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2017

Hazen Paper - Main Plant's TCR rose 2.5 from 1.3 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Holyoke, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO Sealstrip Corporation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sealstrip Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hazen Paper - Main Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hazen Paper - Main Plant averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hazen Paper - Main Plant TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Hazen Paper - Main Plant falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 18 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Massachusetts.

Hazen Paper - Main Plant (151 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hazen Paper - Main Plant
Hazen Paper - Main Plant (151 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Hazen Paper - Main Plant has more employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2017 3.7 1.2 4 2 0
2016 1.3 0.6 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · MA · Holyoke

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing 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 Sealstrip Corporation 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mactac Spartanburg 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland (formerly Bonita Packaging Products Inc.) 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITW ShineMark - Newburyport 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE HOPEDALE-MA14 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE NER 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anika Therapeutics - Bedford 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brammer Bio Lexington 151 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 3637 Republic Services Waycross 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Valley Svc Ctr (Bldg A) MNGV 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shelby Location 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5116 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Farmington LLC 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uniek, Inc 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-Swy 0035 3304 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE State College (Pasta) 151 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: 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.