BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER · Indiana

Carter Lumber 281

Fort Wayne, IN · ~31 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carter Lumber 281 runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER workplace, earning a grade C.

Carter Lumber 281: 3.3 TCR = 96% of BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Lumber 281 safety composite

Carter Lumber 281 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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 281: 0.0 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Carter Lumber 281's TCR rose 6.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Fort Wayne, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 96% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/26
  • PHOTO Cincinnati Doors
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cincinnati Doors (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carter Lumber 281 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carter Lumber 281 averages 3.3 TCR (96% 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 281 TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Carter Lumber 281 falls in its industry

1,643 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #4 safest of 26 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER employers in Indiana.

Carter Lumber 281 (31 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 281
Carter Lumber 281 (31 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Carter Lumber 281 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 6.2 0.0 2 0 0
2023 6.5 3.2 2 0 0
2022 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · IN · Fort Wayne

1,643 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, 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 Cincinnati Doors 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hixwood Ohio LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huntsville Sales Office 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berlin 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - INW 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Pullet Farm 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whitestown, IN 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Service Center 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR CA-Metro West Transmission 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ProCare Hospice of Nevada, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Warwick Forest 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Arfor - Forrest City 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carter Lumber 70 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Louis 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seaonus Refrigerated Services-Mobile LLC. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aidan Senior Living at Reedsport 31 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.