Cornices, wood, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Boswell Lumber Co.

Boswell, PA · ~21 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Boswell Lumber Co. runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cornices, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Boswell Lumber Co.: 5.8 TCR = 174% of Cornices, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boswell Lumber Co. safety composite

Boswell Lumber Co. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.6

2016→2024

Boswell Lumber Co. injury rate improved

Boswell Lumber Co.'s TCR fell 4.6 from 4.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.6 · 2017=15.7 · 2018=10.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=15.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321918 · Boswell, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/22
  • PHOTO Western Timber Produ…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Western Timber Products - Council (0.0 TCR gap)

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Boswell Lumber Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Boswell Lumber Co. averages 5.8 TCR (174% of the Cornices, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Boswell Lumber Co. TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=15.7 · 2018=10.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=15.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Boswell Lumber Co. falls in its industry

317 Cornices, wood, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 22 Cornices, wood, manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Boswell Lumber Co. (21 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Boswell Lumber Co.
Boswell Lumber Co. (21 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Boswell Lumber Co. has fewer employees than the Cornices, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 15.6 10.4 2 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 10.9 5.5 1 1 0
2017 15.7 5.2 1 2 0
2016 4.6 4.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321918 · PA · Boswell

317 Cornices, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 3 employers in Boswell, PA · 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 Western Timber Products - Council 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Viacon, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant Z4 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPI-Richfield Millwork 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smiling Porker 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE STgenetics-PA Dairy 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE LUMA, Carolina Hangar 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Frackville 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Straw Construction Co., Inc. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Straw Construction Office and Yard 28 FTE
NAT-TCR Rayco Drywall 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Branson 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shop 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Corinth Coca-Cola 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Salt Lake City Fabrication 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tosca - Lakewood 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hollister Service Center 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Truck Sales - Biloxi 21 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.