Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Kentucky

Richwood Novolex Plant

Walton, KY · ~199 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richwood Novolex Plant runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Richwood Novolex Plant: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richwood Novolex Plant safety composite

Richwood Novolex Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

Richwood Novolex Plant: 1.1 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Richwood Novolex Plant's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.1 in 2021 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Walton, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Beaverton
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~199 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beaverton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richwood Novolex Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richwood Novolex Plant averages 1.4 TCR (42% 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

Richwood Novolex Plant TCR series: 2021=1.1 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Richwood Novolex Plant falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Kentucky.

Richwood Novolex Plant (199 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 Richwood Novolex Plant
Richwood Novolex Plant (199 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Richwood Novolex Plant has more employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a lower 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
2024 1.5 1.1 4 0 0
2023 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2022 2.1 1.7 5 0 0
2021 1.1 0.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · KY · Walton

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 50 employers in Walton, KY · 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 Beaverton 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caldwell 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florence Novolex Plant 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mondi Akrosil 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amcor Rigid Packaging 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paducah River Service 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1071 - Springhurst 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYWON - RICHWOOD 876 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richwood #2 460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Radial Richwood #1 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Safran Landing Systems Kentucky LLC 322 FTE
NAT-TCR NGDS-CA23 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassus Lansing 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Baker Hill Industries, Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodland, CA 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE BCSD 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bituminous Roadways, Inc. 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zeus Columbia 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gm Cca Lansing 199 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.

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

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