Other Electronic Component Manufacturing · Delaware

Paper Mill West

Newark, DE · ~246 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paper Mill West runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Other Electronic Component Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Paper Mill West: 2.3 TCR = 69% of Other Electronic Component Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paper Mill West safety composite

Paper Mill West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Paper Mill West: 1.4 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Paper Mill West's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.4 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334417 · Newark, DE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 69% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P31
  • PHOTO W23 AER - Ashaway
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~246 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: W23 AER - Ashaway (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paper Mill West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paper Mill West averages 2.3 TCR (69% of the Other Electronic Component Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Paper Mill West TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=0.7 · 2018=1 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Paper Mill West falls in its industry

166 Other Electronic Component Man establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Paper Mill West (246 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,500 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Paper Mill West
Paper Mill West (246 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Paper Mill West has more employees than the Other Electronic Component Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 2.8 1.6 2 5 0
2023 4.8 3.0 8 3 0
2022 3.0 1.7 0 7 0
2021 3.5 2.6 3 5 0
2020 0.8 0.8 1 1 0
2019 2.6 1.3 3 3 0
2018 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.7 0.7 0 1 0
2016 1.4 0.7 0 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334417 · DE · Newark

166 Other Electronic Component Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 221 employers in Newark, DE · 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 W23 AER - Ashaway 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molex LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reynolds 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside Electronics ltd 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2576-250 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delaware Residential Community Homes 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : PHL9 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2555 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR 50 Christiana 11,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newark Site 1,462 FTE
CITY-NEAR DE00000042 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - NEWARK 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPont Electronic Materials 653 FTE
NAT-TCR 163520-Waterbury | CT | 163520 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Process Equipment Inc. (Manufacturing) 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Henderson 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Featherlite Trailers - Davis Corners 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 233006-Meridian | ID | SAN-700 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunes Surgical Hospital 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Global Material Handling LLC Winfield 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seneca Foods 246 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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