Lumber retailing yards · Michigan

Bernard Building Center Inc

Hale, MI · ~45 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bernard Building Center Inc runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lumber retailing yards workplace, earning a grade D.

Bernard Building Center Inc: 6.5 TCR = 192% of Lumber retailing yards BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bernard Building Center Inc safety composite

Bernard Building Center Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bernard Building Center Inc: 5.1 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2024

Bernard Building Center Inc's TCR rose 0.8 from 5.1 in 2020 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Hale, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 192% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #35/54
  • PHOTO Hbc - Shawnee
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hbc - Shawnee (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bernard Building Center Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bernard Building Center Inc averages 6.5 TCR (192% of the Lumber retailing yards BLS benchmark).

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

Bernard Building Center Inc TCR series: 2020=5.1 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=11.5 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Bernard Building Center Inc falls in its industry

1,643 Lumber retailing yards establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 54 Lumber retailing yards employers in Michigan.

Bernard Building Center Inc (45 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bernard Building Center Inc
Bernard Building Center Inc (45 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Bernard Building Center Inc has more employees than the Lumber retailing yards median and a higher 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 5.9 3.0 2 0 0
2023 11.5 8.6 2 2 0
2022 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2021 6.6 3.3 4 0 0
2020 5.1 5.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · MI · Hale

1,643 Lumber retailing yards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 4 employers in Hale, MI · 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 Hbc - Shawnee 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calhoun GA 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Roofing Supply, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gulf Shores 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grand Junction Office 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeWeerdt Poultry Farm, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clare SC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Sebold and Associates, Inc. 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6273_14723 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hale Creek Manor 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Darton Inc 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Parkview Hospital 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0739 - S Colorado Springs 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clark Distributing Co., Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Google Yoshkas 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Precision Painting Group, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elementary 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zorn Compressor & Equipment - Pewaukee 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE OVB HOLDINGS LLC DBA OVERBUILT and DBA EASIPOUR 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, 2020. 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.