BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER · Indiana

Carter Lumber 359

Franklin, IN · ~82 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carter Lumber 359 runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER workplace, earning a grade D.

Carter Lumber 359: 4.6 TCR = 136% of BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Lumber 359 safety composite

Carter Lumber 359 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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 359: 2.6 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2024

Carter Lumber 359's TCR rose 4.2 from 2.6 in 2018 to 6.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Franklin, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 136% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #9/26
  • PHOTO CA081
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CA081 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carter Lumber 359 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carter Lumber 359 averages 4.6 TCR (136% 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 359 TCR series: 2018=2.6 · 2019=7 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Carter Lumber 359 falls in its industry

1,643 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #9 safest of 26 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER employers in Indiana.

Carter Lumber 359 (82 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 359
Carter Lumber 359 (82 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Carter Lumber 359 has more 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 6.8 1.4 5 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.4 0.0 2 0 0
2021 10.1 7.8 9 0 0
2020 3.6 0.0 3 0 0
2019 7.0 0.0 9 0 0
2018 2.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · IN · Franklin

1,643 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 78 employers in Franklin, 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 CA081 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunpro Corporation 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARTER LUMBER 391 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS Fort Myers Millwork 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunny Side Farms 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE TK Elevator Indianapolis 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICC Floors 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allliance Sheets LLC 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson Memorial Health 878 FTE
CITY-NEAR KAC Franklin 726 FTE
CITY-NEAR Government 694 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reman Powertrain Indiana 473 FTE
NAT-TCR Cub Foods Brookdale - 5510 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Baptist Health System Jacksonville Wolfson Children's Hospital 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Prime Products Inc 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Solis Lighting and Electrical Services, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carter Component Plant 539 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willow Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aperion Care Bridgeport 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Roofing Systems Inc 82 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.