Tissue paper stock manufacturing · Massachusetts

Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill

Otter River, MA · ~102 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tissue paper stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Tissue paper stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill safety composite

Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 Paper Mill: 3.7 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2022

Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill's TCR rose 2.3 from 3.7 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #7/13
  • PHOTO Menasha Tissue Manuf…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Menasha Tissue Manufacturer (0.0 TCR gap)

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Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Tissue paper stock manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=11.2 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill falls in its industry

317 Tissue paper stock manufacturi establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #7 safest of 13 Tissue paper stock manufacturi employers in Massachusetts.

Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill (102 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Paper Mill
Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill (102 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Seaman Paper Company Paper Mill has fewer employees than the Tissue paper stock manufacturing 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
2022 6.0 6.0 5 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 3 0 0
2020 6.7 6.7 6 0 0
2019 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2018 11.2 6.7 10 0 0
2017 4.9 3.5 7 0 0
2016 3.7 3.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · MA · Otter River

317 Tissue paper stock 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 Menasha Tissue Manufacturer 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR miller recycling corporation 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flagstaff Paper Manufacturing Facility 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omniafiltra LLC 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE DEME Offshore US 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quincy Office 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canton Distributors 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holden MB 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts 79 FTE
NAT-TCR Setco Inc 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Gurnee 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 061 Seg 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZBAT 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CLE-SPUSA 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE EaglePicher Technologies, LLC/Seneca Facility 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haven of Lakeside, LLC 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE EMF,INC. 102 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: 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.