Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers · Virginia

Buena Vista Saw Mill

Buena Vista, VA · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Buena Vista Saw Mill runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Buena Vista Saw Mill: 3.5 TCR = 160% of Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buena Vista Saw Mill safety composite

Buena Vista Saw Mill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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%).

Buena Vista Saw Mill held a steady TCR band

Buena Vista Saw Mill's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.6 in 2019 to 3.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.6 · 2020=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Buena Vista, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 160% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/48
  • PHOTO KCM Olathe
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KCM Olathe (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buena Vista Saw Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buena Vista Saw Mill averages 3.5 TCR (160% of the Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Buena Vista Saw Mill TCR series: 2019=3.6 · 2020=3.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Buena Vista Saw Mill falls in its industry

1,225 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finishe establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 48 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finishe employers in Virginia.

Buena Vista Saw Mill (53 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 020406080100120 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buena Vista Saw Mill
Buena Vista Saw Mill (53 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Buena Vista Saw Mill has more employees than the Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2020 3.4 0.0 1 1 1
2019 3.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · VA · Buena Vista

1,225 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 19 employers in Buena Vista, VA · 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 KCM Olathe 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOSTETTER SUPPLY COMPANY, INC. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forest Plywood Sales 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DACULA (ATLANTA) DC 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Power Home Solar Chester 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE GLOUCESTER 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 324-NiSource-Suffolk VA-Harbour View 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Hopewell 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modine Manufacturing Company - Buena Vista 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munters Corporation, Buena Vista, VA 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Everbrite, LLC 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Everbrite LLC - Buena Vista 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Rwks Transit East Side Access 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Overhead Door Corp PA Division 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Foremost Farms - Sparta 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Yushiro Manufacturing America, Inc 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oriole Homes, Inc 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE COMCAST 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Staffing Services, Inc 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Woodlands at St. Barnabas, Inc. 53 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.