Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing · Massachusetts

Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts

Otter River, MA · ~79 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts: 8.2 TCR = 250% of Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts safety composite

Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts: 8.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2024

Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts's TCR rose 0.4 from 8.0 in 2023 to 8.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Otter River, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 250% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO vonDrehle Natchez
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: vonDrehle Natchez (0.1 TCR gap)

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Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts averages 8.2 TCR (250% of the Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts TCR series: 2023=8 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts falls in its industry

317 Paper (except newsprint, uncoa establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Paper (except newsprint, uncoa employers in Massachusetts.

Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts (79 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts
Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts (79 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts has fewer employees than the Paper (except newsprint, uncoated ground median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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 8.4 6.0 7 0 0
2023 8.0 6.9 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · MA · Otter River

317 Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 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 vonDrehle Natchez 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cottrell Paper Company, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR vonDrehle Cordova 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henry Molded Products, Inc. 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medical Area Total Energy Plant, LLC. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE NE DISTRIB CENTER (SUTTON)-MA25 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMESBURY-MA02 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1800 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill 102 FTE
NAT-TCR Bay Shore 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LA South 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Building 3 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Willowbrooke at Tanner 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wbs - Green Bay Truss 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas Auxillary Warehouse 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE S.J. Distributors LLC-Richmond Warehouse 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenridge Waste Services, LLC 79 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.