Home centers, building materials · Indiana

Bender Lumber

Bedford, IN · ~45 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bender Lumber runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade C.

Bender Lumber: 2.8 TCR = 82% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bender Lumber safety composite

Bender Lumber scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−1.9

2017→2024

Bender Lumber injury rate improved

Bender Lumber's TCR fell 1.9 from 10.3 in 2017 to 8.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.3 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=8.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Bedford, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #27/163
  • PHOTO 0053 LOWE S OF W. FT…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0053 LOWE S OF W. FT. WAYNE IN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bender Lumber in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bender Lumber averages 2.8 TCR (82% 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 TCR series: 2017=10.3 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Bender Lumber falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 82% 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 #27 safest of 163 Home centers, building materia employers in Indiana.

Bender Lumber (45 employees, TCR 2.8) 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
Bender Lumber (45 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Bender Lumber has fewer employees than the Home centers, building materials median and a lower 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 8.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 10.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · IN · Bedford

6,309 Home centers, building materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 53 employers in Bedford, 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 0053 LOWE S OF W. FT. WAYNE IN 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0564 LOWE S OF CENTRAL TAMPA FL 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2837 LOWE S OF E GREENVILLE NC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0471 LOWE S OF HAGERSTOWN MD. 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE J Star Farms LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windfall, IN 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Oil Field Services LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patoka Lake Regional Water & Sewer District 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Bedford 818 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1026 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1026 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bedford Hospital 361 FTE
NAT-TCR Houston South Loop 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pan American Grain Company-Fertilizer 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Asplin Center - Day Training & Habilitation 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ulen-Hitterdal Public School 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Terra Firma Farm 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Pacific Homes 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quad Cities 065 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tulsa 195 45 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.