Veneer mills, hardwood · Wisconsin

Birchwood Manufacturing Company

Rice Lake, WI · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birchwood Manufacturing Company runs at 291% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Veneer mills, hardwood workplace, earning a grade F.

Birchwood Manufacturing Company: 9.6 TCR = 291% of Veneer mills, hardwood BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birchwood Manufacturing Company safety composite

Birchwood Manufacturing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Birchwood Manufacturing Company: 2.2 → 14.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2023

Birchwood Manufacturing Company's TCR rose 12.2 from 2.2 in 2021 to 14.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321211 · Rice Lake, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 291% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO Wisconsin Veneer & P…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wisconsin Veneer & Plywood (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birchwood Manufacturing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birchwood Manufacturing Company averages 9.6 TCR (291% of the Veneer mills, hardwood BLS benchmark).

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

Birchwood Manufacturing Company TCR series: 2021=2.2 · 2022=12.3 · 2023=14.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Birchwood Manufacturing Company falls in its industry

116 Veneer mills, hardwood establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Veneer mills, hardwood employers in Wisconsin.

Birchwood Manufacturing Company (41 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Birchwood Manufacturing Company
Birchwood Manufacturing Company (41 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Birchwood Manufacturing Company has fewer employees than the Veneer mills, hardwood median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 14.4 12.3 6 1 0
2022 12.3 4.9 3 2 0
2021 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321211 · WI · Rice Lake

116 Veneer mills, hardwood employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 44 employers in Rice Lake, 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 Wisconsin Veneer & Plywood 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commonwealth Plywood Inc 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danzer Veneer Americas 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florida Plywoods Inc 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE SunVest Solar LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mineral Point Operations Bldg 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE CMC Construction Inc. - Ashland, WI 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bilfinger - P&G Green Bay 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeview Medical Center 508 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMC- Rice Lake 435 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1446 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Repeating Arms - Rice Lake 394 FTE
NAT-TCR Magnum Steel Works, Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Arts 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Layne Glass Company, LLC 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Joseph's Rehabilitation & Care Center 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northern Michigan Veneers 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingsley Specialty Care 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Tank of North Carolina 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3115 Keystone 41 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.