Handkerchiefs, paper, made from purchased paper · Pennsylvania

Nittany Paper Mills

Lewistown, PA · ~156 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nittany Paper Mills runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Handkerchiefs, paper, made from purchased paper workplace, earning a grade D.

Nittany Paper Mills: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Handkerchiefs, paper, made from purchased paper BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nittany Paper Mills safety composite

Nittany Paper Mills scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.8

2016→2024

Nittany Paper Mills injury rate improved

Nittany Paper Mills's TCR fell 10.8 from 11.3 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.3 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=10.1 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322291 · Lewistown, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO Essity Professional …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 65 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Essity Professional Hygiene, Greenwich (0.1 TCR gap)

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Nittany Paper Mills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nittany Paper Mills averages 4.8 TCR (146% of the Handkerchiefs, paper, made from purchased paper BLS benchmark).

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

Nittany Paper Mills TCR series: 2016=11.3 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=10.1 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Nittany Paper Mills falls in its industry

113 Handkerchiefs, paper, made fro establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 12 Handkerchiefs, paper, made fro employers in Pennsylvania.

Nittany Paper Mills (156 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Nittany Paper Mills
Nittany Paper Mills (156 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Nittany Paper Mills has more employees than the Handkerchiefs, paper, made from purchase median and a higher 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 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 3 0 0
2022 3.3 1.7 8 0 0
2021 2.7 1.1 5 0 0
2020 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2019 4.9 4.3 8 0 0
2018 10.1 8.8 15 0 0
2017 8.2 6.6 10 0 0
2016 11.3 6.9 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322291 · PA · Lewistown

113 Handkerchiefs, paper, made from purchased paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 47 employers in Lewistown, PA · 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 Essity Professional Hygiene, Greenwich 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Health Care Products, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NPS Holdings LLC Spirit Way 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bellemarque LLC 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Basciani Foods, Inc 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE TIS - PA - Morrisville 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE HSC Builders & Construction Managers 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Pietrini Corporation 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEISINGER LEWISTOWN HOSPITAL 1,014 FTE
CITY-NEAR LEWISTOWN HOSPITAL 975 FTE
CITY-NEAR First Quality Retail Services, LLC 699 FTE
CITY-NEAR First Quality Baby Products NE 423 FTE
NAT-TCR McFadden & Miller 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 014-SBN 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Horn Hospital 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Book Fairs - Chicago 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Progressive Surface, Inc. 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE MOC and PHPD 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE WIKA Instrument Houston 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acadian - Fleet/Materials 156 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.