Kraft paper stock manufacturing · Michigan

UP Paper LLC

Manistique, MI · ~100 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UP Paper LLC runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Kraft paper stock manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

UP Paper LLC: 2.8 TCR = 83% of Kraft paper stock manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UP Paper LLC safety composite

UP Paper LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

UP Paper LLC: 1.2 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

UP Paper LLC's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.2 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Manistique, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 83% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Fleenor Mira Loma
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fleenor Mira Loma (0.0 TCR gap)

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UP Paper LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UP Paper LLC averages 2.8 TCR (83% 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

UP Paper LLC TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where UP Paper LLC falls in its industry

317 Kraft paper stock manufacturin establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Kraft paper stock manufacturin employers in Michigan.

UP Paper LLC (100 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 UP Paper LLC
UP Paper LLC (100 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

UP Paper LLC has fewer employees than the Kraft 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
2024 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2023 6.6 5.7 8 0 0
2022 3.5 0.9 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · MI · Manistique

317 Kraft paper stock manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 6 employers in Manistique, MI · 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 Fleenor Mira Loma 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Healthy Pet Ferndale 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mule Hide Manufacturing 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt Paper (OH) LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jay Dee Contractors, Inc. 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solomon Plumbing Co 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE FiberClass Insulation 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eden Foods Headquarters 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR SCHOOLCRAFT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manistique Casino 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manistique Community Center 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTY RAOD COMMISSION 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Ludwig Drilling LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Ag Management, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TLC Ingredients, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Electro-Miniatures Corp. 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tcr Systems LLC 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Third Coast Services LLC 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jefferson Elementary 100 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, 2017. 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.