Employer · Mississippi

MS163 Leaf River Cellulose

New Augusta, MS · ~312 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

MS163 Leaf River Cellulose runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

MS163 Leaf River Cellulose: 1.8 TCR = 54% of industry BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MS163 Leaf River Cellulose safety composite

MS163 Leaf River Cellulose scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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

MS163 Leaf River Cellulose: 2.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2024

MS163 Leaf River Cellulose's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.0 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322110 · New Augusta, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK P57
  • PHOTO International Paper …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~312 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper - Port Wentworth Mill (0.1 TCR gap)

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MS163 Leaf River Cellulose in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MS163 Leaf River Cellulose averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

MS163 Leaf River Cellulose TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.6 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where MS163 Leaf River Cellulose falls in its industry

46 industry establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
MS163 Leaf River Cellulose (312 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 MS163 Leaf River Cellulose
MS163 Leaf River Cellulose (312 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0

MS163 Leaf River Cellulose has more employees than the industry median and a lower 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 2.7 2.1 9 0 0
2023 2.0 0.6 6 1 0
2022 1.4 0.7 4 0 0
2020 1.6 1.0 5 0 0
2019 1.5 1.5 5 0 0
2018 1.6 0.6 4 1 0
2017 1.3 1.0 4 0 1
2016 2.0 1.0 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322110 · MS · New Augusta

46 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 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 International Paper - Port Wentworth Mill 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RYAM-Fernandina Mill 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rayonier AM-Fernandina Mill 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AL217 Alabama River Cellulose 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Weir Esco Newton 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE Helen of Troy - Olive Branch 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6469 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1260 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR BM13 18 FTE
NAT-TCR Ocado Solutions USA Groveland 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Resort Vacations 14 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Elverson Whitford 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR West Region Customer Center 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fieldturf USA 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montage Big Sky 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE River City Construction Inc 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keenan, Hopkins, Schmidt & Stowell Contractors, Inc. 312 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.