Flooring, wood, merchant wholesalers · Texas

Central Hardwood Specialties

Name: Central Hardwood Specialties Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Dallas, TX · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 2.7
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Central Hardwood Specialties runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Flooring, wood, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Central Hardwood Specialties: 2.7 TCR = 122% of Flooring, wood, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Hardwood Specialties safety composite

Central Hardwood Specialties 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).

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.4

2016→2018

Central Hardwood Specialties injury rate improved

Central Hardwood Specialties's TCR fell 5.4 from 5.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.4 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Dallas, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.7 · 122% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #49/149
PHOTO Chaparral Rio Rancho
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chaparral Rio Rancho (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chaparral Rio

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Hardwoods Spec

2.7
Diamond Hill P

2.7

What this shows Central Hardwood Specialties averages 2.7 TCR (122% of the Flooring, wood, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Central Hardwood Specialties TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Central Hardwood Specialties falls in its industry

1,225 Flooring, wood, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 149 Flooring, wood, merchant whole employers in Texas.

Central Hardwood Specialties (34 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Central Hardwood Specialties has fewer employees than the Flooring, wood, merchant wholesalers 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
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2016	5.4	5.4	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · TX · Dallas

1,225 Flooring, wood, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,187 employers in Dallas, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Chaparral Rio Rancho	RIO RANCHO, NM	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Chicago	ROMEOVILLE, IL	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hardwoods Specialty Products	ELKHART, IN	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Diamond Hill Plywood-Raleigh	RALEIGH, NC	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	SOUTHWEST FEED YARD	HEREFORD	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bartlett Cattle Company, L.P. - Tulia	TULIA	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pineywoods	CENTER	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TXP	DUMAS	34 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AECOM DCS (US Operations)	Dallas	15,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Rexel USA, Inc	Dallas	8,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1 CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS	Dallas	6,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HDQ - Headquarters	Dallas	5,764 FTE
NAT-TCR	dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5221	Atlanta, GA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Orscheln Farm and Home LLC 063	Lincoln, NE	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bear Construction, Inc.	Canonsburg, PA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	MSP Industries Corporation	Oxford, MI	2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Cartersville Hospice	Acworth, GA	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	AIC	Oklahoma City, OK	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	250-Uniontown	Lemont Furnace, PA	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	American Laboratories 4410	Omaha, NE	34 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: 2018, 2016. 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.