Sawmills · North Carolina

Ashton Lewis Lumber Company

Gatesville, NC · ~88 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ashton Lewis Lumber Company runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade C.

Ashton Lewis Lumber Company: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ashton Lewis Lumber Company safety composite

Ashton Lewis Lumber Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Ashton Lewis Lumber Company: 0.9 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2024

Ashton Lewis Lumber Company's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.9 in 2018 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Gatesville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #20/34
  • PHOTO WAGNER HARDWOODS, LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WAGNER HARDWOODS, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ashton Lewis Lumber Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ashton Lewis Lumber Company averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Ashton Lewis Lumber Company TCR series: 2018=0.9 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Ashton Lewis Lumber Company falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 34 Sawmills employers in North Carolina.

Ashton Lewis Lumber Company (88 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ashton Lewis Lumber Company
Ashton Lewis Lumber Company (88 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Ashton Lewis Lumber Company has more employees than the Sawmills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2023 4.8 2.4 4 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2021 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2020 4.8 4.8 5 0 0
2019 6.3 2.1 6 0 0
2018 0.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · NC · Gatesville

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 WAGNER HARDWOODS, LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carrizo Wood Products, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charm Saw Mill & Yoder Logistics 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meltz Lumber Co. of Mellenville Inc. 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Utilities 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayliss Boatworks Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE BU 3434 - I-40_I-77 Statesville, NC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Young and McQueen Grading Company Inc 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gates House 46 FTE
NAT-TCR Time Base Corp 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stonington, IL-Mfg 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Haynes Building Service, LLC 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GMP General Service Center - Springfield 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ranger Steel Inc. 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE M&M Hou 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schifano Construction Corp. 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mom's Meals Conyers Fulfillment 88 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.