Paper towels made from purchased paper · Florida

Softex Paper Inc.

Palatka, FL · ~60 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Softex Paper Inc. runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paper towels made from purchased paper workplace, earning a grade B.

Softex Paper Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Paper towels made from purchased paper BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Softex Paper Inc. safety composite

Softex Paper Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

Softex Paper Inc.: 1.4 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Softex Paper Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 1.4 in 2019 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322291 · Palatka, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P58
  • PHOTO Essity
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Essity (0.0 TCR gap)

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Softex Paper Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Softex Paper Inc. averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Paper towels made from purchased paper BLS benchmark).

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

Softex Paper Inc. TCR series: 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=3 · 2022=0 · 2023=4 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Softex Paper Inc. falls in its industry

113 Paper towels made from purchas establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Softex Paper Inc. (60 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Softex Paper Inc.
Softex Paper Inc. (60 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Softex Paper Inc. has fewer employees than the Paper towels made from purchased paper median and a lower 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 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 3 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322291 · FL · Palatka

113 Paper towels made from purchased paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 59 employers in Palatka, FL · 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 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pryor OK 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimberly-Clark Corporation -- Ogden Plant 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR B82 - INCO 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bartow Combined Cycle Plant 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCC-Cape Canaveral Plant 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE BB1 Boynton Beach - S C Strm 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Customer Service 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR FL180 Palatka Paper 922 FTE
CITY-NEAR PALATKA CENTER FOR REHAB & HEALING 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR HH-PALATHME 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Putnam Hospital 413 FTE
NAT-TCR Siler City Processing 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AustinWoods 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SSP-SiMatrix, Inc. - Victor 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 056-KNX 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Twinmed, LLC - Illinois 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gateway Refrigerated Warehouse, LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE MTNT, Ltd. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baptist Health Medical Center - Van Buren 60 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. 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.