Industry profile · NAICS 322121

Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing

Workplace injury rates across 311 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

311
Employers
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
BLS benchmark
6,195
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing average 3.1 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.

3.1
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.3
BLS national benchmark
311
employers reporting
6,195
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing Safety Data Reveals

The Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing sector (NAICS 322121) encompasses 311 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 6,195 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 3.1 is below the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Paper (except newsprint, uncoated groundwood) manufacturing that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
New Indy Containerboard Hartford City Mill Hartford City, IN A 1.6
Rhinelander Paper Unit Rhinelander, WI A 1.6
NAPP Riceboro Mill - 016 Riceboro, GA A 1.6
Tile Plant Trenton, NJ A 1.6
Dublin Mill Dublin, GA A 1.6
Verso Androscoggin Jay, ME A 1.6
Cohoes Paper Machine Cohoes, NY A 1.6
Arkansas Kraft Division Morrilton, AR A 1.6
Kimberly Clark Corp. Marinette Marinette, WI A 1.6
4507 Seminole Mill Jacksonville, FL A 1.6
Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Mechanicville Mechanicville, NY A 1.5
Verso Corporation Stevens Point, WI A 1.5
Pixelle Speciality Solutions LLC Chillicothe, OH A 1.5
Kimberly- Clark Jenks Jenks, OK A 1.5
Ahlstrom Filtration LLC - Madisonville Madisonville, KY A 1.5
Fullerton Mill Fullerton, CA A 1.5
SCC Converting Center Cohoes, NY A 1.5
Evergreen Packaging - Canton Canton, NC A 1.5
First Quality Tissue, LLC. Lock Haven, PA A 1.5
Wagram, NC Wagram, NC A 1.5
Arkansas Kraft Green Bay Packaging INC Morrilton, AR A 1.4
Novipax Washington, GA A 1.4
WALLULA WA (Mill) Wallula, WA A 1.4
4505 Hopewell Mill Hopewell, VA A 1.4
Tomahawk, Wi Tomahawk, WI A 1.4
DePere, WI - Paper - B281 Depere, WI A 1.4
Holyoke Paper - B353 Holyoke, MA A 1.4
Procter and Gamble Mehoopany Mehoopany, PA A 1.4
Kimberly-Clark Corporation New Milford, CT A 1.4
Kimberly-Clark Corporation Marinette, WI A 1.3
International Paper - Savannah Mill Savannah, GA A 1.3
Cascades Tissue Group - Tennessee Memphis, TN A 1.3
Jesup (PC) Jesup, GA A 1.3
Nekoosa Nekoosa, WI A 1.3
Cascades Rockingham Rockingham, NC A 1.3
Dallas Mill Dallas, TX A 1.3
Kimberly-Clark CPPM Corinth, MS A 1.3
Pixelle Specialty Solutions Stevens Point, WI A 1.3
4506 Panama City Mill Panama City, FL A 1.3
4502 Fernandina Mill Fernandina, FL A 1.3
4518 Dublin Mill Dublin, GA A 1.3
Glatfelter -Chillicothe Chillicothe, OH A 1.3
Hawesville Hawesville, KY A 1.2
Rome Mill Rome, GA A 1.2
Soundview Paper Company - Elmwood Park Elmwood Park, NJ A 1.2
South Hadley Converting Center South Hadley, MA A 1.2
Counce, Tn Counce, TN A 1.2
Johnsonburg Johnsonburg, PA A 1.2
International Paper Savannah Mill Savannah, GA A 1.2
Resolute Tissue Sanford Sanford, FL A 1.1
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This sector averages 3.1 against a BLS benchmark of 3.3 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.