Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts · Mississippi

Biewer Sawmill Newton

Name: Biewer Sawmill Newton Workplace Safety Data
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Newton, MS · ~146 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Biewer Sawmill Newton runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts workplace, earning a grade B.

Biewer Sawmill Newton: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Biewer Sawmill Newton safety composite

Biewer Sawmill Newton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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 Newton: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2024

Biewer Sawmill Newton's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Newton, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK #24/53
PHOTO Schmitt Timber
BOOK 7y book
INJ 28 inj
SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schmitt Timber (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.4
Schmitt Timber

2.4
RAYMOND

2.4
West Fraser, A

2.4
Turman Lumber

2.4

What this shows Biewer Sawmill Newton averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts BLS benchmark).

Biewer Sawmill Newton TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=5.9 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Biewer Sawmill Newton falls in its industry

905 Boards, wood, made from logs o establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 53 Boards, wood, made from logs o employers in Mississippi.

Biewer Sawmill Newton (146 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Biewer Sawmill Newton has more employees than the Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts median and a lower 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
2024	4.0	2.5	7	1
2023	1.3	0.9	3	0
2022	0.9	0.4	2	0
2019	5.9	5.3	9	1
2018	1.8	1.2	3	0
2017	2.9	0.7	4	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · MS · Newton

905 Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 14 employers in Newton, MS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Schmitt Timber	SPRING VALLEY, WI	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RAYMOND	RAYMOND, WA	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	West Fraser, Armour	RIEGELWOOD, NC	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Turman Lumber Company Salem	SALEM, VA	2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Eubanks Produce, Inc.	LUCEDALE	146 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hankins Lumber Co, Inc	GRENADA	146 FTE
STATE-SIZE	025-00471	TUPELO	146 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Store 0670 Hattiesburg	HATTIESBURG	146 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LaZBoy	Newton	535 FTE
CITY-NEAR	La-Z-Boy South	Newton	477 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ESCO Group LLC,	Newton	354 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Weir Esco Newton	Newton	313 FTE
NAT-TCR	Tampa	Thonotosassa, FL	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ritter Communications - Marked Tree	Marked Tree, AR	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mencom Corporation	Oakwood, GA	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	026/White Plains	White Plains, NY	2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	1115 - NSM Grant Park	Portland, OR	146 FTE
NAT-SIZE	West Fraser Lumber	Lake Butler, FL	146 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Westampton Nj	Westampton, NJ	146 FTE
NAT-SIZE	OCI Beaumont LLC	Nederland, TX	146 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.