Towels, paper, made from purchased paper · Ohio

Playtex Manufacturing

Sidney, OH · ~121 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Playtex Manufacturing runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Towels, paper, made from purchased paper workplace, earning a grade B.

Playtex Manufacturing: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Towels, paper, made from purchased paper BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Playtex Manufacturing safety composite

Playtex Manufacturing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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)
D 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

Playtex Manufacturing: 0.7 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

Playtex Manufacturing's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.7 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322291 · Sidney, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO essity
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: essity (0.0 TCR gap)

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Playtex Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Playtex Manufacturing averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Towels, paper, made from purchased paper BLS benchmark).

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

Playtex Manufacturing TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=2 · 2023=5 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Playtex Manufacturing falls in its industry

113 Towels, paper, made from purch establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Towels, paper, made from purch employers in Ohio.

Playtex Manufacturing (121 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Playtex Manufacturing
Playtex Manufacturing (121 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Playtex Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Towels, paper, made from purchased paper 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 1.7 0.9 2 0 0
2023 5.0 2.0 4 1 0
2022 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2021 3.6 2.1 5 0 0
2020 5.6 2.8 10 0 0
2019 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2018 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322291 · OH · Sidney

113 Towels, paper, made from purchased paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 100 employers in Sidney, OH · 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 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MS006 Hattiesburg SPG 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Quality Retail Services LT 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Tissue LLC 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dana Avenue 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas & Marker Construction 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hammond Construction, Inc. 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kokosing-McLean-JV 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson Health 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Campus 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR NK Parts Main Campus 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1331 362 FTE
NAT-TCR B&D Concrete Cutting, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ameriport 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaiser Aluminum - Trentwood 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Houk Air Conditioning, Inc 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABLe Communications, Inc. HQ 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grace Heights Health & Rehabilitation 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE RB Royal Industries, Inc. 121 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.