Beams, wood, made from logs or bolts · Michigan

Biewer Sawmill Lake City

Lake City, MI · ~50 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Biewer Sawmill Lake City runs at 211% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beams, wood, made from logs or bolts workplace, earning a grade F.

Biewer Sawmill Lake City: 7.0 TCR = 211% of Beams, wood, made from logs or bolts BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Biewer Sawmill Lake City safety composite

Biewer Sawmill Lake City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Biewer Sawmill Lake City: 5.7 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2022

Biewer Sawmill Lake City's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.7 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Lake City, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 211% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #9/26
  • PHOTO T&R Lumber Company
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T&R Lumber Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Biewer Sawmill Lake City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Biewer Sawmill Lake City averages 7.0 TCR (211% of the Beams, wood, made from logs or bolts BLS benchmark).

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

Biewer Sawmill Lake City TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=4.2 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Biewer Sawmill Lake City falls in its industry

905 Beams, wood, made from logs or establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #9 safest of 26 Beams, wood, made from logs or employers in Michigan.

Biewer Sawmill Lake City (50 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Biewer Sawmill Lake City
Biewer Sawmill Lake City (50 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Biewer Sawmill Lake City has fewer employees than the Beams, wood, made from logs or bolts 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
2022 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2021 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2019 4.2 0.0 1 1 0
2018 16.1 12.5 9 0 0
2017 7.1 0.0 4 0 0
2016 5.7 5.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · MI · Lake City

905 Beams, wood, made from logs or bolts employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 4 employers in Lake City, 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 T&R Lumber Company 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cummings Lumber Company, INC. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chilco 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilkins, Kaiser & Olsen, Inc. 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Commonwealth Commerce Center 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Midland 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-City Acoustical 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4066_7786 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake City 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR PK Contracting, LLC. North 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lake City 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Eversource - Epping 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0401 - Morena Ca Whse 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Peninsula Hospital Services, Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle - 3rd Ave 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE PCI Knoxville ISS 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Castleton Health Care Center 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE 43815 - Dallas South Fac. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE 43916 - Mcallen Fac. 50 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: 2022, 2021, 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.