Home centers, building materials · Indiana

Bender Lumber - Bloomington

Bloomington, IN · ~30 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bender Lumber - Bloomington runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade D.

Bender Lumber - Bloomington: 5.9 TCR = 174% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bender Lumber - Bloomington safety composite

Bender Lumber - Bloomington scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.7

2016→2024

Bender Lumber - Bloomington injury rate improved

Bender Lumber - Bloomington's TCR fell 1.7 from 8.9 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.9 · 2017=0.0 · 2020=11.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=10.1 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Bloomington, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 174% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #93/163
  • PHOTO MARION IL - 3219
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MARION IL - 3219 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bender Lumber - Bloomington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bender Lumber - Bloomington averages 5.9 TCR (174% of the Home centers, building materials BLS benchmark).

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

Bender Lumber - Bloomington TCR series: 2016=8.9 · 2017=0 · 2020=11.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=10.1 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Bender Lumber - Bloomington falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #93 safest of 163 Home centers, building materia employers in Indiana.

Bender Lumber - Bloomington (30 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bender Lumber - Bloomington
Bender Lumber - Bloomington (30 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Bender Lumber - Bloomington has fewer employees than the Home centers, building materials median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 7.2 0.0 2 0 0
2023 10.1 6.7 3 0 0
2022 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 11.6 11.6 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · IN · Bloomington

6,309 Home centers, building materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 204 employers in Bloomington, IN · 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 MARION IL - 3219 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR O'FALLON IL - 3306 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6320 E PALM BEACH LAKES 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6940 POWDER SPRINGS 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Noblesville Generating Station 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawrenceburg Power, LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE HQ 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steuben County REMC 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Incorporated Park 48 3,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Inc 2,976 FTE
CITY-NEAR CI-P48 2,567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bloomington 2,251 FTE
NAT-TCR Four Daughters, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Department 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Angelus Block - Rialto 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Technical Support Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Egging Company 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lee County Head Start 30 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, 2017, 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.