Paper products made in paper mills · Virginia

ST Tissue

Franklin, VA · ~125 workers · 7 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

ST Tissue runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paper products made in paper mills workplace, earning a grade C.

ST Tissue: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Paper products made in paper mills BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ST Tissue safety composite

ST Tissue scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

ST Tissue: 3.3 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

ST Tissue's TCR rose 1.8 from 3.3 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322120 · Franklin, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK P29
  • PHOTO OR227 Wauna Tissue
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OR227 Wauna Tissue (0.0 TCR gap)

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ST Tissue in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ST Tissue averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Paper products made in paper mills BLS benchmark).

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

ST Tissue TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2018=7 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=2 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where ST Tissue falls in its industry

28 Paper products made in paper m establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
ST Tissue (125 employees, TCR 3.8) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 328 employees and a TCR of 2.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ST Tissue
ST Tissue (125 employees, TCR 3.8) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 328 employees and a TCR of 2.6

ST Tissue has fewer employees than the Paper products made in paper mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 5.0 3.6 7 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 4 0 0
2022 2.0 0.0 3 0 0
2021 3.5 0.9 4 0 0
2020 3.3 1.6 4 0 0
2018 7.0 5.4 9 0 0
2016 3.3 1.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322120 · VA · Franklin

28 Paper products made in paper mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 35 employers in Franklin, VA · 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 OR227 Wauna Tissue 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimberly Clark 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA484 Savannah River Tissue 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flower City Tissue Mills Company Inc. 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shoosmith Construction, Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amcor Tobacco Packaging - Chester Plant 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Virginia Poly Operations (VPO) 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Flooring 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Hampton Medical Center 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR International Paper Franklin Mill 318 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2705 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2705 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Innor - Indianapolis 81st Auto Shop 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR C Thornton Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR IDSI Products of Georgia Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR County of Currituck 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE University Park 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henderson TX Truss 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Manor 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ilbdl - Bloomingdale 125 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, 2018, 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.