Facial tissues made in paper mills · Connecticut

Kimberly Clark

New Milford, CT · ~348 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kimberly Clark runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Facial tissues made in paper mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Kimberly Clark: 4.4 TCR = 132% of Facial tissues made in paper mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kimberly Clark safety composite

Kimberly Clark scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Kimberly Clark: 1.9 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2024

Kimberly Clark's TCR rose 4.9 from 1.9 in 2018 to 6.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322120 · New Milford, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 132% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK P25
  • PHOTO Sofidel America
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~348 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sofidel America (0.4 TCR gap)

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Kimberly Clark in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kimberly Clark averages 4.4 TCR (132% of the Facial tissues made in paper mills BLS benchmark).

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

Kimberly Clark TCR series: 2018=1.9 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kimberly Clark falls in its industry

28 Facial tissues made in paper m establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kimberly Clark (348 employees, TCR 4.4) among 24 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 328 employees and a TCR of 2.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 25 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kimberly Clark
Kimberly Clark (348 employees, TCR 4.4) among 24 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 328 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Kimberly Clark has more employees than the Facial tissues made in paper mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 6.8 2.4 21 2 0
2018 1.9 0.8 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322120 · CT · New Milford

28 Facial tissues made in paper mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 45 employers in New Milford, CT · 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 Sofidel America 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ST Tissue 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OR227 Wauna Tissue 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OR226 Halsey Tissue 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milford Markets LLC dba ShopRite of Milford 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2077-US RO NW RAYNHAM OFFICE 349 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kimberly-Clark Corporation 346 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stanley Black and Decker 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Milford Day Program 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Milford Hospital 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Milford 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Milford Public Schools High School 190 FTE
NAT-TCR Roll Off Systems Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stonecrest Healthcare 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lima Oh 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bar Processing Corporation 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kiowa Casino 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE JPC Group Inc 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meteor Sealing Systems, LLC 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dixie Construction Company, Inc dba DXI Construction 348 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, 2018. 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.