Sawmills · Wisconsin

Besse Lumber Company

Ladysmith, WI · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Besse Lumber Company runs at 304% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Besse Lumber Company: 10.0 TCR = 304% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Besse Lumber Company safety composite

Besse Lumber Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.3

2021→2023

Besse Lumber Company injury rate improved

Besse Lumber Company's TCR fell 13.3 from 13.3 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=13.3 · 2022=16.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Ladysmith, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 304% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/35
  • PHOTO Brown-Forman- Jackso…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brown-Forman- Jackson Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Besse Lumber Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Besse Lumber Company averages 10.0 TCR (304% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Besse Lumber Company TCR series: 2021=13.3 · 2022=16.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Besse Lumber Company falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 35 Sawmills employers in Wisconsin.

Besse Lumber Company (25 employees, TCR 10.0) 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 Besse Lumber Company
Besse Lumber Company (25 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Besse Lumber Company has fewer employees than the Sawmills 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 16.8 16.8 4 0 0
2021 13.3 8.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · WI · Ladysmith

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 20 employers in Ladysmith, WI · 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 Brown-Forman- Jackson Mill 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson Sawmill 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanders Wood Products-Precision Mill 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dyer's Sawmill 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fergusons Minnesota Harvest LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minocqua Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Janesville Headquarters 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berlin Office 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weather Shield Mfg Inc. --Ladysmith Plant 05 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Automation- Ladysmith WI (LAD) 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4281 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4281 192 FTE
NAT-TCR Bunker Hill Elementary School 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Glenwood 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CC Mitchell Supply Company 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brethren Retirement Community 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-650 Berry Rd 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Borger Service Center 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 281-NiSource-Connellsville PA-Construct MOD 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salisbury Resource Center - PNG 25 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.