Sawed lumber made in sawmills · Kentucky

Central Pallet Mills, Inc.

Central City, KY · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Pallet Mills, Inc. runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sawed lumber made in sawmills workplace, earning a grade C.

Central Pallet Mills, Inc.: 2.7 TCR = 81% of Sawed lumber made in sawmills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Pallet Mills, Inc. safety composite

Central Pallet Mills, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Central Pallet Mills, Inc.: 0.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Central Pallet Mills, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.3 from 0.0 in 2023 to 5.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Central City, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 81% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #5/28
  • PHOTO Yazoo Lumber Mats, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yazoo Lumber Mats, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Pallet Mills, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Pallet Mills, Inc. averages 2.7 TCR (81% of the Sawed lumber made in sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Central Pallet Mills, Inc. TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Central Pallet Mills, Inc. falls in its industry

905 Sawed lumber made in sawmills establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 28 Sawed lumber made in sawmills employers in Kentucky.

Central Pallet Mills, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Pallet Mills, Inc.
Central Pallet Mills, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Central Pallet Mills, Inc. has fewer employees than the Sawed lumber made in sawmills 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 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · KY · Central City

905 Sawed lumber made in sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 16 employers in Central City, KY · 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 Yazoo Lumber Mats, LLC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kettle Falls Lumber - WP 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TNM Lumberworks of Ark, Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Collums Administration & Maintenance 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clark tobacco farms inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lexington Meter Dept 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Light Distribution Department 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin Street 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR 294 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR LHS/Services Central City 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 294 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sparks Nursing Center, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Redwood Distribution Center 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pender 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EMS - Deephaven Woods 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Built Properties 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oaks at Evans 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chowchilla Water District 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rich Coast Corporation 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE McGriff Tire Company 22 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. 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.