Wood Preservation · Nebraska

4505 - Valley Treating Plant

Valley, NE · ~21 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4505 - Valley Treating Plant runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wood Preservation workplace, earning a grade D.

4505 - Valley Treating Plant: 5.3 TCR = 160% of Wood Preservation BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4505 - Valley Treating Plant safety composite

4505 - Valley Treating Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−11.8

2016→2024

4505 - Valley Treating Plant injury rate improved

4505 - Valley Treating Plant's TCR fell 11.8 from 11.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=5.2 · 2023=14.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321114 · Valley, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 160% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P35
  • PHOTO LV-SB-LOUISVILLE
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LV-SB-LOUISVILLE (0.0 TCR gap)

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4505 - Valley Treating Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4505 - Valley Treating Plant averages 5.3 TCR (160% of the Wood Preservation BLS benchmark).

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

4505 - Valley Treating Plant TCR series: 2016=11.8 · 2018=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.2 · 2023=14.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where 4505 - Valley Treating Plant falls in its industry

183 Wood Preservation establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
4505 - Valley Treating Plant (21 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 4505 - Valley Treating Plant
4505 - Valley Treating Plant (21 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

4505 - Valley Treating Plant has fewer employees than the Wood Preservation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 14.7 0.0 3 0 0
2021 5.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 11.8 5.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · NE · Valley

183 Wood Preservation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 24 employers in Valley, NE · 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 LV-SB-LOUISVILLE 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koppers Galesburg 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR UFP Stockertown, LLC. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR C.M. Tucker Lumber Companies, LLC 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE McClymont Feedyard 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCW 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE PC West 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Echo 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley NE 1,822 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley NE - Main Campus 1,630 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley NE - Main Campus - Irrigation 614 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley NE - Main Campus - Structures 566 FTE
NAT-TCR Avantara Watertown 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR KN Construction Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Danbury Westerville 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Morley Elementary School 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Town of Forest City - Fire Department 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE M.E. Industries, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE UTS Maritime Services, LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Karnak Midwest LLC 21 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, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.