Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · North Carolina

UPM Raflatac, Inc

Mills River, NC · ~259 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UPM Raflatac, Inc runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

UPM Raflatac, Inc: 2.6 TCR = 78% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UPM Raflatac, Inc safety composite

UPM Raflatac, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2022→2024

UPM Raflatac, Inc injury rate improved

UPM Raflatac, Inc's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.1 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.1 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Mills River, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 78% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #9/22
  • PHOTO Intertape Polymer Gr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~259 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Intertape Polymer Group - Carbondale, IL Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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UPM Raflatac, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UPM Raflatac, Inc averages 2.6 TCR (78% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

UPM Raflatac, Inc TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where UPM Raflatac, Inc falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 22 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in North Carolina.

UPM Raflatac, Inc (259 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate UPM Raflatac, Inc
UPM Raflatac, Inc (259 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

UPM Raflatac, Inc has more employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 1.6 5 0 0
2022 3.1 2.7 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · NC · Mills River

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 33 employers in Mills River, NC · 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 Intertape Polymer Group - Carbondale, IL Operations 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bagcraft - Norcross 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Label Mark-It 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mondi Bags USA 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunenergy1 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar Raleigh/Durham 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coats Pharr HP 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE TriSeal 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linamar Light Metals-MR 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mills River 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac Mills River 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR GF Linamar, LLC 242 FTE
NAT-TCR Iby, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Arlington National Cemetery Tours Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Maintenance Systems Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RC&E 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE TC Electric 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mesa Golfland Ltd. 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jenner's Pond 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE SME Steel Fabrication Shop Utah 259 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, 2022. 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.