Pulp mills not making paper or paperboard · North Carolina

New Bern Mill

Vanceboro, NC · ~329 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Bern Mill runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pulp mills not making paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

New Bern Mill: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Pulp mills not making paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Bern Mill safety composite

New Bern Mill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

New Bern Mill: 0.6 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2023

New Bern Mill's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.6 in 2017 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322110 · Vanceboro, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Profile Products LLC…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~329 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Profile Products LLC Conover NC (0.2 TCR gap)

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New Bern Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Bern Mill averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Pulp mills not making paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

New Bern Mill TCR series: 2017=0.6 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=9.9 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where New Bern Mill falls in its industry

46 Pulp mills not making paper or establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Pulp mills not making paper or employers in North Carolina.

New Bern Mill (329 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 New Bern Mill
New Bern Mill (329 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0

New Bern Mill has more employees than the Pulp mills not making paper or paperboar median and a higher 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
2023 1.3 0.8 3 2 0
2022 1.7 1.4 3 3 0
2021 9.9 2.0 8 27 0
2020 0.8 0.8 3 0 0
2017 0.6 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322110 · NC · Vanceboro

46 Pulp mills not making paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 6 employers in Vanceboro, NC · 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 Profile Products LLC Conover NC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signode Angleboard Loveland 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sustana Fiber 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cosmo Specialty Fibers 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc. 329 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4458 329 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1179 329 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greensboro Blend Plant 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR International Paper - New Bern Mill 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Bern 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Bern Lumber 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02108 - STORE # 2108 VANCEBORO 64 FTE
NAT-TCR Christmas Casino 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pearse Bertram 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmington Country Club 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Myers- CF 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monogram Appetizers, LLC - MR 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stellar Industrial Solutions Inc. 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheridan Books, Inc. 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE JST Corporation 329 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017. 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.