Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) · Maine

ND Paper Rumford Division

Rumford, ME · ~521 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

ND Paper Rumford Division runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) workplace, earning a grade D.

ND Paper Rumford Division: 4.4 TCR = 134% of Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ND Paper Rumford Division safety composite

ND Paper Rumford Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2023→2024

ND Paper Rumford Division injury rate improved

ND Paper Rumford Division's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.8 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.8 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Rumford, ME ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 134% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO Neenah Paper Whiting
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~521 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Neenah Paper Whiting (0.0 TCR gap)

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ND Paper Rumford Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ND Paper Rumford Division averages 4.4 TCR (134% of the Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) BLS benchmark).

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

ND Paper Rumford Division TCR series: 2023=4.8 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where ND Paper Rumford Division falls in its industry

317 Pulp mills producing paper (ex establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 Pulp mills producing paper (ex employers in Maine.

ND Paper Rumford Division (521 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ND Paper Rumford Division
ND Paper Rumford Division (521 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

ND Paper Rumford Division has more employees than the Pulp mills producing paper (except groun median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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 4.0 1.7 15 6 0
2023 4.8 2.2 20 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · ME · Rumford

317 Pulp mills producing paper (except groundwood, newsprint) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 11 employers in Rumford, ME · 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 Neenah Paper Whiting 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clearwater Paper Las Vegas LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ivex Specialty Paper LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paper, Pulp & Film Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northport Building 521 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maine Coast Memorial Hospital 527 FTE
STATE-SIZE Verso Androscoggin 533 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunday River Skiway Corp 508 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND Paper - Rumford Division 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rumford Hospital 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rumford Community Home 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hope Association 99 FTE
NAT-TCR Champion Window of Lexington 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cowtown Garden Acres Drive 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR GTS Kent 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR General Underground Fire Protection, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Procter & Gamble Hair Care Company, LLC 521 FTE
NAT-SIZE DC 30 - Kutztown, PA 521 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montage Deer Valley 521 FTE
NAT-SIZE Modine Manufacturing Company - Racine 521 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.