Custom sawmills · Indiana

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill

Spencer, IN · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill runs at 717% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Custom sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill: 23.7 TCR = 717% of Custom sawmills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill safety composite

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

−4.7

2016→2019

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill injury rate improved

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill's TCR fell 4.7 from 24.7 in 2016 to 20.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 30.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=24.7 · 2017=19.3 · 2018=30.6 · 2019=20.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Spencer, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.7 · 717% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #18/18
  • PHOTO Cass Forest Products…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cass Forest Products Sawmill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill averages 23.7 TCR (717% 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- Spencer Mill TCR series: 2016=24.7 · 2017=19.3 · 2018=30.6 · 2019=20 · BLS 3.3

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

905 Custom sawmills establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 18 Custom sawmills employers in Indiana.

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill (22 employees, TCR 23.7) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill
Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill (22 employees, TCR 23.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer 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 20.0 12.0 4 1 0
2018 30.6 30.6 7 0 0
2017 19.3 19.3 4 0 0
2016 24.7 19.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · IN · Spencer

905 Custom sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 11 employers in Spencer, IN · 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 Cass Forest Products Sawmill 23.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber 23.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dickenson Enterprises LLC 24.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yellowstone Log Homes 23.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wilson Fertilizer, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MISHAWAKA CONCRETE ASPHALT RECYCLE INC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCAR 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connersville District Office 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boston Scientific 1,252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Inc. Spencer 697 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Urological 626 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 996 127 FTE
NAT-TCR Marla Vista 23.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gurnee Bickford 23.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Conwaste Recogido SJ Zona-2 23.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brown Health and Rehabilitation 23.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE S05436 - WM Mercer County Transfer 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1414 E Idaho Millwork Door 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4103 Winston Salem 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beasley Forest Products, Inc 22 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.