Toilet paper made from purchased paper · Kentucky

Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill

Owensboro, KY · ~353 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Toilet paper made from purchased paper workplace, earning a grade B.

Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Toilet paper made from purchased paper BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill safety composite

Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill: 1.1 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2024

Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.1 in 2023 to 2.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322291 · Owensboro, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO NPS Holdings LLC BRT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~353 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NPS Holdings LLC BRT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Toilet paper made from purchased paper BLS benchmark).

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

Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill TCR series: 2023=1.1 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill falls in its industry

113 Toilet paper made from purchas establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Toilet paper made from purchas employers in Kentucky.

Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill (353 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill
Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill (353 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Kimberly-Clark Owensboro Mill has more employees than the Toilet paper made from purchased paper median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 2.4 2.4 8 0 0
2023 1.1 0.5 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322291 · KY · Owensboro

113 Toilet paper made from purchased paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 184 employers in Owensboro, KY · 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 NPS Holdings LLC BRT 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACON Investments 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimberly Clark Chester 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wilbert Plastic Services- Lebanon, KY 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE 694 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE William E Groves Construction, LLC 354 FTE
STATE-SIZE sgsco Global Headquarters 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Health Regional Hospital 2,305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Public Schools 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Independent 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish Match 816 FTE
NAT-TCR B&B Signal Company LLC. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR A & L Cesspool Service Corp. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tendercare Lawn and Landscape Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR United Forest Products Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE LaForce - Green Bay 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eataly Boston 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE NY15530 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE InterContinental New York Barclay 353 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. 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.