Custom sawmills · Minnesota

Cass Forest Products Sawmill

Cass Lake, MN · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cass Forest Products Sawmill runs at 717% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Custom sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Cass Forest Products Sawmill: 23.7 TCR = 717% of Custom sawmills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cass Forest Products Sawmill safety composite

Cass Forest Products Sawmill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Cass Forest Products Sawmill: 11.0 → 36.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 36.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2021

Cass Forest Products Sawmill's TCR rose 25.4 from 11.0 in 2020 to 36.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Cass Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.7 · 717% of ind

  • DART 13.6 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO Brown-Forman Coopera…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cass Forest Products Sawmill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cass Forest Products Sawmill averages 23.7 TCR (717% of the Custom sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Cass Forest Products Sawmill TCR series: 2020=11 · 2021=36.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Cass Forest Products Sawmill falls in its industry

905 Custom sawmills establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Custom sawmills employers in Minnesota.

Cass Forest Products Sawmill (25 employees, TCR 23.7) 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 Cass Forest Products Sawmill
Cass Forest Products Sawmill (25 employees, TCR 23.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Cass Forest Products Sawmill 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
2021 36.4 13.6 6 2 0
2020 11.0 7.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · MN · Cass Lake

905 Custom sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 9 employers in Cass Lake, MN · 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 Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill 23.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber 23.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dickenson Enterprises LLC 24.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yellowstone Log Homes 23.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Hutchinson, MN 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Park Rapids Trucking 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Country Pork LLP 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN IPH 03-0110-10, 50, 51, 52, 970 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elem 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Middle School 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR HealthStar - Cass Lake 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR High School 59 FTE
NAT-TCR Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill 23.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Marla Vista 23.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gurnee Bickford 23.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Conwaste Recogido SJ Zona-2 23.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE US535: Unistrut - Union City 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kokomo 1 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 042/Birmingham 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 077/Irving 25 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: 2021, 2020. 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.