Pressure treated lumber made from purchased lumber · New York

Bestway of New York, Inc.

Cortland, NY · ~63 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bestway of New York, Inc. runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pressure treated lumber made from purchased lumber workplace, earning a grade D.

Bestway of New York, Inc.: 6.1 TCR = 184% of Pressure treated lumber made from purchased lumber BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bestway of New York, Inc. safety composite

Bestway of New York, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Bestway of New York, Inc.: 5.8 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Bestway of New York, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.0 from 5.8 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321114 · Cortland, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 184% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK P28
  • PHOTO Woodland Wood Preser…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Woodland Wood Preservers, Ltd (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bestway of New York, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bestway of New York, Inc. averages 6.1 TCR (184% of the Pressure treated lumber made from purchased lumber BLS benchmark).

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

Bestway of New York, Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Bestway of New York, Inc. falls in its industry

183 Pressure treated lumber made f establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bestway of New York, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bestway of New York, Inc.
Bestway of New York, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Bestway of New York, Inc. has more employees than the Pressure treated lumber made from purcha median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 7.8 6.5 6 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 3 0 0
2022 6.6 4.9 4 0 0
2021 3.8 0.0 2 0 0
2020 6.5 4.9 4 0 0
2019 8.5 5.7 5 1 0
2018 6.6 3.3 4 0 0
2017 4.6 1.5 3 0 0
2016 5.8 3.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · NY · Cortland

183 Pressure treated lumber made from purchased lumber employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 73 employers in Cortland, NY · 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 Woodland Wood Preservers, Ltd 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Southern Wood - Mansura 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA051 Warrenton II 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AT-SB-ATHENS 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMC East Ave 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NY State Solar HQ 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Kills Substation 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE KJJ Industries LLC 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hook 1,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cortland YWCA SITE 1,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell 990 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinton 990 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodwill North Olmsted Store 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Crafted Plastics, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Springs Healthcare Facility 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Iowa Regional Utilities Association 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE NTH 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kentucky - Non Metals 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zilber Ltd. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Santa Rosa (5103) 63 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, 2017, 2016. 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.