BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER · Michigan

Carter Lumber 260

Kalamazoo, MI · ~21 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carter Lumber 260 runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER workplace, earning a grade D.

Carter Lumber 260: 4.8 TCR = 142% of BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Lumber 260 safety composite

Carter Lumber 260 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Carter Lumber 260: 3.8 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Carter Lumber 260's TCR rose 0.9 from 3.8 in 2018 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 142% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #29/54
  • PHOTO Penn Stone
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Penn Stone (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carter Lumber 260 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carter Lumber 260 averages 4.8 TCR (142% of the BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER BLS benchmark).

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

Carter Lumber 260 TCR series: 2018=3.8 · 2019=4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=16.3 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Carter Lumber 260 falls in its industry

1,643 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 54 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER employers in Michigan.

Carter Lumber 260 (21 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Carter Lumber 260
Carter Lumber 260 (21 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Carter Lumber 260 has fewer employees than the BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER median and a lower 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 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 16.3 0.0 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · MI · Kalamazoo

1,643 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 353 employers in Kalamazoo, MI · 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 Penn Stone 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lemon Grove 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dayton Modern Builders Supply 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Desert Lumber 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms Sturgis 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE BE Cultivation 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4605_15228 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willard DeHaan & Son Grnhs 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson Methodist Hospital 4,909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road 3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments 2,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIKAL1 2,103 FTE
NAT-TCR San San Diego International Airport 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpha Sheet Metal Works, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 300000170856360 - MO-Kansas City-Intermodal Office 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR JetNet Corporation 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Butler Bakery Feeds 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shenandoah Industrial Rubber Company 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beacon Pointe Resort 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE R&D Precision Inc 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. 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.