Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) · West Virginia

Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard

Keyser, WV · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) workplace, earning a grade D.

Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard safety composite

Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard: 4.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2018

Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard's TCR rose 0.5 from 4.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Keyser, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK P26
  • PHOTO Sofidel - Circleville
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sofidel - Circleville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) BLS benchmark).

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

Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard TCR series: 2016=4 · 2018=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard falls in its industry

317 Paper mills (except newsprint, establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard (47 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard
Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard (47 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Verso Luke Paper Beryl Woodyard has fewer employees than the Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated 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
2018 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2016 4.0 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · WV · Keyser

317 Paper mills (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood paper mills) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 20 employers in Keyser, WV · 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 Sofidel - Circleville 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essity Greenwich Converting 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cohoes 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ahlstrom Filtration LLC 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Morgantown Energy Associates - NRG Energy Services 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Horizons 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hacker Valley 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jim C. Hamer Company - Curtin Mill 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2474 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2474 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Automated Packaging Systems LLC of Sealed Air 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Virginia's Choice - Keyser 195 FTE
NAT-TCR Lvmpd - Dsd 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Accella Polyurethane Systems Cartersville Plant 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5102 Pompano Beach, 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Iron Hill Brewery- West Chester 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rochester Atlantic Avenue 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cook Inlet Tug & Barge 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penske : 4779-00 East Coast Metals-DCC/Durham, NC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE SC.MOUNT.7 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 47 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.