Kraft paper stock manufacturing · Maine

Somerset Mill

Skowhegan, ME · ~778 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Somerset Mill runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Kraft paper stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Somerset Mill: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Kraft paper stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Somerset Mill safety composite

Somerset Mill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Somerset Mill: 1.5 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.07× in 2019

Somerset Mill's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.5 in 2018 to 2.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Skowhegan, ME AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #5/10
  • PHOTO Domtar West Carrollton
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~778 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Domtar West Carrollton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Somerset Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Somerset Mill averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Kraft paper stock manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Somerset Mill TCR series: 2018=1.5 · 2019=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Somerset Mill falls in its industry

317 Kraft paper stock manufacturin establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 10 Kraft paper stock manufacturin employers in Maine.

Somerset Mill (778 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Somerset Mill
Somerset Mill (778 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Somerset Mill has more employees than the Kraft paper stock manufacturing median and a lower 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
2019 2.0 0.1 17 0 0
2018 1.5 0.6 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · ME · Skowhegan

317 Kraft paper stock manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 21 employers in Skowhegan, ME · 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 Domtar West Carrollton 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Resolute Tissue Hialeah Mill 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Panama City Mill 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR P.H. Glatfelter Company - Spring Grove 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE John F Murphy Homes, Inc 807 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redington Fairview General Hospital 744 FTE
STATE-SIZE ME-Oakland Call Center 827 FTE
STATE-SIZE PenBay Medical Center - 6 Glen Cove 857 FTE
CITY-NEAR Skowhegan Manufacturing 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2143 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2143 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8330 132 FTE
NAT-TCR USA North Syracuse 146 Constellation Way N 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nelson Tree Service LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 808 - Charlotte 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Specialty Solutions 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pse&G Nj - Customer Operations - (Billing & Rev Ops, Customer Contact, Lcs, Vp & Other Cust Ops) 778 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tracker Marine-Lebanon 778 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primm Valley 778 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Dat2 778 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: 2019, 2018. 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.