Custom sawmills · Iowa

Bruggeman Lumber Inc

Hopkinton, IA · ~33 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Bruggeman Lumber Inc runs at 625% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Custom sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Bruggeman Lumber Inc: 20.6 TCR = 625% of Custom sawmills BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bruggeman Lumber Inc safety composite

Bruggeman Lumber Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−19.2

2016→2024

Bruggeman Lumber Inc injury rate improved

Bruggeman Lumber Inc's TCR fell 19.2 from 31.2 in 2016 to 12.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 39.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=31.2 · 2017=10.4 · 2018=23.0 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=24.0 · 2021=20.6 · 2022=22.1 · 2023=39.1 · 2024=12.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Hopkinton, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.6 · 625% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P2
  • PHOTO Grantham Mill
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grantham Mill (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bruggeman Lumber Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bruggeman Lumber Inc averages 20.6 TCR (625% of the Custom sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Bruggeman Lumber Inc TCR series: 2016=31.2 · 2017=10.4 · 2018=23 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=24 · 2021=20.6 · 2022=22.1 · 2023=39.1 · 2024=12.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Bruggeman Lumber Inc falls in its industry

905 Custom sawmills establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bruggeman Lumber Inc (33 employees, TCR 20.6) 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 Bruggeman Lumber Inc
Bruggeman Lumber Inc (33 employees, TCR 20.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Bruggeman Lumber Inc 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
2024 12.1 0.0 4 0 0
2023 39.1 13.1 12 0 0
2022 22.1 6.3 7 0 0
2021 20.6 3.4 6 0 0
2020 24.0 10.3 7 0 0
2019 3.1 0.0 1 0 1
2018 23.0 14.3 7 1 0
2017 10.4 3.5 3 0 0
2016 31.2 11.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · IA · Hopkinton

905 Custom sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Grantham Mill 20.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kennebec Lumber Company - Tamworth 20.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Badger Precision Cut Stock Inc 20.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manke Lumber Company Inc. - Tacoma 20.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Marshalltown 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IA Hatchery & Logistics 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE East-Central Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keokuk Contractors LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8735 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Crossroads for Youth 20.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresno-Shaw Ave #059 20.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Orem #076 20.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of San Bernardino 20.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE EC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Plastic Engineering, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bolingbrook Il 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Block Graphics -2 33 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.