Custom sawmills · Tennessee

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill

Waynesboro, TN · ~59 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill runs at 547% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Custom sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill: 18.1 TCR = 547% of Custom sawmills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill safety composite

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.8

2016→2019

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill injury rate improved

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill's TCR fell 9.8 from 17.1 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 28.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=17.1 · 2017=19.0 · 2018=28.8 · 2019=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Waynesboro, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.1 · 547% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #25/25
  • PHOTO Amissville Sawmill
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amissville Sawmill (0.1 TCR gap)

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Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill averages 18.1 TCR (547% of the Custom sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill TCR series: 2016=17.1 · 2017=19 · 2018=28.8 · 2019=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill falls in its industry

905 Custom sawmills establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 25 Custom sawmills employers in Tennessee.

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill (59 employees, TCR 18.1) 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 Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill
Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill (59 employees, TCR 18.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Clifton Mill has fewer employees than the Custom sawmills 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
2019 7.3 5.5 3 1 0
2018 28.8 11.5 6 9 0
2017 19.0 17.1 10 0 0
2016 17.1 14.0 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · TN · Waynesboro

905 Custom sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 6 employers in Waynesboro, TN · 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 Amissville Sawmill 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shiocton Cut Stock LLC 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meador Wood Products Inc. 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Binderholz Enfield LLC 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Erwin Utilities Authority 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landmark Construction 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rogers Group Inc. EMTN Construction 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Campbell Construction, Inc. 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wayne County Schools 358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wayne Medical Center 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clifton Mill 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lincoln Brass Works Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-TCR Universal's Aventura Hotel 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Retail East - Hallowell 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Mary Dialysis 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Sanford 18.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4141 Tbsg Components & Millwork 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jet-Hot LLC. 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sea Watch Resort, LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-Swy 0035 1538 59 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: 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.