Paper towels made in paper mills · Ohio

Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio

Name: Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Middletown, OH · ~203 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper towels made in paper mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio: 4.3 TCR = 131% of Paper towels made in paper mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio safety composite

Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2016→2017

Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio injury rate improved

Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio's TCR fell 2.3 from 5.5 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.5 · 2017=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322121 · Middletown, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

DART 2.8 DART
RANK #17/21
PHOTO ST Paper, LLC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 22 inj
SIZE ~203 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ST Paper, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Leader Paper P

4.4
This site

4.3
ST Paper, LLC

4.3
Essity Greenwi

4.3
Greif (MG AUST

4.3

What this shows Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the Paper towels made in paper mills BLS benchmark).

Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio falls in its industry

317 Paper towels made in paper mil establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 21 Paper towels made in paper mil employers in Ohio.

Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio (203 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 146 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Wausau Paper - Middletown, Ohio has more employees than the Paper towels made in paper mills 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
2017	3.1	2.8	8	0	0
2016	5.5	2.0	14	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322121 · OH · Middletown

317 Paper towels made in paper mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 125 employers in Middletown, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	ST Paper, LLC	OCONTO FALLS, WI	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Essity Greenwich Converting	GREENWICH, NY	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Greif (MG AUSTELL-1)	AUSTELL, GA	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Leader Paper Products - Milwaukee	MILWAUKEE, WI	4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Stingray Pressure Pumping	BELMONT	203 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mechanical Services & Design	DAYTON	203 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Casad Company Inc	COLDWATER	203 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cincinnati (formerly Ampac Plastics LLC)	CINCINNATI	203 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp. Middletown Works	Middletown	2,339 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AK Steel - Middletown Works	Middletown	2,288 FTE
CITY-NEAR	870 - EFC1 Monroe, OH	Middletown	1,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Atrium Medical Center	Middletown	1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR	AMG Specialty Hospital - Las Vegas	Las Vegas, NV	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cumberland (Mdcub)	Cumberland, MD	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Capri Foods Inc.	Litchfield, IL	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	2073-EJ-20730180-MX	Houston, TX	4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Cicotte (Micic)	Detroit, MI	203 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Globecomm Systems Inc.	Hauppauge, NY	203 FTE
NAT-SIZE	FedEx Supply Chain	Four Oaks, NC	203 FTE
NAT-SIZE	B-X Waterbury LLC	Waterbury, CT	203 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: 2017, 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.