Groundwood pulp manufacturing · Mississippi

Penick Forest Products, Inc.

Macon, MS · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Penick Forest Products, Inc. runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Groundwood pulp manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Penick Forest Products, Inc.: 1.2 TCR = 37% of Groundwood pulp manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Penick Forest Products, Inc. safety composite

Penick Forest Products, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Penick Forest Products, Inc.: 0.0 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 3.98× in 2024

Penick Forest Products, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.9 from 0.0 in 2021 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322110 · Macon, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 37% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK P74
  • PHOTO Columbus Mill
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Columbus Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Penick Forest Products, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Penick Forest Products, Inc. averages 1.2 TCR (37% of the Groundwood pulp manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Penick Forest Products, Inc. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Penick Forest Products, Inc. falls in its industry

46 Groundwood pulp manufacturing establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Penick Forest Products, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Penick Forest Products, Inc.
Penick Forest Products, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Penick Forest Products, Inc. has fewer employees than the Groundwood pulp manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322110 · MS · Macon

46 Groundwood pulp manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 6 employers in Macon, MS · 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 Columbus Mill 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ND Fairmont LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chattanooga Southern Cellulose 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2372-Flora, MS 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Molpus Woodlands Group - Headquarters 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Govermental, Regulatory, Legislative & Community Affairs, Economic Devopmental 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville Network 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Fish Products 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN SEED & FEED 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ecco Ride Noxubee 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Mississippi Pole Company 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Pike Gas Services, LLC South Carolina Statewide Operations 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden State Foods Opelika Protein Division 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Scotts Company - Groveland 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bennett Pump Company 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Point Blank Distributing Bend 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Staffing Solutions LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE NEW Cooperative Inc. - Ute 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bobcat of Atlanta - Gainesville 21 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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