Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · New York

North American Tapes, LLC

Watertown, NY · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North American Tapes, LLC runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

North American Tapes, LLC: 4.0 TCR = 121% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North American Tapes, LLC safety composite

North American Tapes, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

Rising injury rate

North American Tapes, LLC: 0.0 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

North American Tapes, LLC's TCR rose 6.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Watertown, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO Ronpak, Inc. Louisiana
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ronpak, Inc. Louisiana (0.0 TCR gap)

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North American Tapes, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North American Tapes, LLC averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

North American Tapes, LLC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where North American Tapes, LLC falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 11 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in New York.

North American Tapes, LLC (37 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate North American Tapes, LLC
North American Tapes, LLC (37 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

North American Tapes, LLC has fewer employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 6.9 0.0 3 0 0
2017 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · NY · Watertown

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 115 employers in Watertown, NY · 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 Ronpak, Inc. Louisiana 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arclin Surfaces LLC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 200 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kludt Brothers Inc. 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Hamptonburgh 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cruikshank Farms LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main farm 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 1,735 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc Jefferson-St Lawrence NY 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAR-FRESHNER Corporation 430 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1871 381 FTE
NAT-TCR The Rosewood Retirement Community 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sapona Manufacturing Company, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Biloxie Service Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CC013 - Santa Clara, CA 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roadrunner Carriers, LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atchison 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evansville Truck Center 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE ISLF - Westchester-Winter Park, LLC 37 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.