Paperboard mills · Indiana

PaperWorks Wabash Mill

Wabash, IN · ~213 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PaperWorks Wabash Mill runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paperboard mills workplace, earning a grade B.

PaperWorks Wabash Mill: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Paperboard mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PaperWorks Wabash Mill safety composite

PaperWorks Wabash Mill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2022→2024

PaperWorks Wabash Mill injury rate improved

PaperWorks Wabash Mill's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.1 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.1 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322130 · Wabash, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO International Paper …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~213 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper Henderson Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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PaperWorks Wabash Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PaperWorks Wabash Mill averages 2.6 TCR (80% of the Paperboard mills BLS benchmark).

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

PaperWorks Wabash Mill TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where PaperWorks Wabash Mill falls in its industry

181 Paperboard mills establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Paperboard mills employers in Indiana.

PaperWorks Wabash Mill (213 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate PaperWorks Wabash Mill
PaperWorks Wabash Mill (213 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3

PaperWorks Wabash Mill has more employees than the Paperboard mills 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 2.1 0.0 5 0 0
2023 2.7 1.3 6 0 0
2022 3.1 1.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · IN · Wabash

181 Paperboard mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 49 employers in Wabash, IN · 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 International Paper Henderson Mill 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montana Container Corporation 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MS150 Monticello MS Paper 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3330 Chattanooga Mill 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ryan Fireprotection, Indianapolis 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone RV Company - Plant 31 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Store 167 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Store 287 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. 685 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. (Wabash) 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1667 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR White's Residential and Family Services 274 FTE
NAT-TCR Roa, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gunnison Tree Services, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HandCraft Linen Services - Retail Medical WL 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TLG-Mid America 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital The Vintage, LLC 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Environmental Service Department 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imagine 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 213 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.