Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Louisiana

Ross and Wallace Paper

Hammond, LA · ~111 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ross and Wallace Paper runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ross and Wallace Paper: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ross and Wallace Paper safety composite

Ross and Wallace Paper scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Ross and Wallace Paper: 2.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Ross and Wallace Paper's TCR rose 3.5 from 2.0 in 2023 to 5.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Hammond, LA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO CCL Label - Buffalo
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CCL Label - Buffalo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ross and Wallace Paper in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ross and Wallace Paper averages 3.8 TCR (114% 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

Ross and Wallace Paper TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Ross and Wallace Paper falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Louisiana.

Ross and Wallace Paper (111 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Ross and Wallace Paper
Ross and Wallace Paper (111 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Ross and Wallace Paper has more employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a higher 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 5.5 3.7 6 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · LA · Hammond

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 101 employers in Hammond, LA · 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 CCL Label - Buffalo 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 36/27 Highland 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RLG - Gintzler TX 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walden (formerly Ampac Paper LLC) 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Star Service, Inc. 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Payne Mechanical Company 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Storer Equipment 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE A La Carte Foods Properties, LLC. 1 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Hammond Processing 600 FTE
CITY-NEAR 489 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 489 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Intralox LLC - Hammond 245 FTE
NAT-TCR Park Manor Bee Cave 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Montrose Ford LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lancer Transportation & Logistics 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Seemann Composites, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marysville Care Center 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azria Health Olathe 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerrity's Supermarkets, Meadow Avenue 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami Office 111 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. 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.