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Newport- Paper - B352

Newport, TN · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newport- Paper - B352 runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paper workplace, earning a grade B.

Newport- Paper - B352: 2.1 TCR = 64% of Paper BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newport- Paper - B352 safety composite

Newport- Paper - B352 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Newport- Paper - B352: 1.8 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Newport- Paper - B352's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.8 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Newport, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 64% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Clearwater Paper Lew…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clearwater Paper Lewistion CPD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newport- Paper - B352 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newport- Paper - B352 averages 2.1 TCR (64% of the Paper BLS benchmark).

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

Newport- Paper - B352 TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Newport- Paper - B352 falls in its industry

317 Paper establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Paper employers in Tennessee.

Newport- Paper - B352 (94 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Newport- Paper - B352
Newport- Paper - B352 (94 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Newport- Paper - B352 has fewer employees than the Paper median and a lower 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
2018 2.7 0.0 0 3 0
2017 1.8 0.0 0 2 0
2016 1.8 0.9 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · TN · Newport

317 Paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 38 employers in Newport, TN · 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 Clearwater Paper Lewistion CPD 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charleston Paper Mill 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Holly Springs Specialty Paper, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4532 Longview Paper Mill 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harpeth Valley Utilities District 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOS-Construction Services 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acuff Enterprises, Inc 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Long Foundation Drilling Co. 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pacific Tomato Growers, Ltd. - Newport TN Housing 567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smoky Mountain Family Farms LLC - Newport TN Farm 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport TN 422 FTE
NAT-TCR Supply Chain : Erie, PA 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Health - Litchfield 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2073-EJ-20730195-MX 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Acute Care Hospital 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0024 0077 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0024 0024 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #8417 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryerson- Los Angeles 94 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: 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.