Sawmills · North Carolina

Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC

Bostic, NC · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC runs at 288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC: 9.5 TCR = 288% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC safety composite

Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.9

2016→2022

Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC injury rate improved

Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC's TCR fell 4.9 from 9.6 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 23.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.6 · 2017=23.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2022=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Bostic, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 288% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #28/34
  • PHOTO SOUTHERN FOREST INDU…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SOUTHERN FOREST INDUSTRIES, INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC averages 9.5 TCR (288% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC TCR series: 2016=9.6 · 2017=23.8 · 2019=0 · 2022=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 34 Sawmills employers in North Carolina.

Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC (20 employees, TCR 9.5) 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 Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC
Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC (20 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Cherry Mountain Sawmill, LLC has fewer employees than the 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
2022 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 23.8 11.9 4 0 0
2016 9.6 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · NC · Bostic

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 4 employers in Bostic, NC · 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 SOUTHERN FOREST INDUSTRIES, INC 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wayne Lumber Co. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Speyside Bourbon Stave Mill in Ohio at Waverly 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emmett Lumber 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Steve Thomas Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Smith Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Richmond 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Family Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden Valley Plant 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milliken Golden Valley 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park: Golden Valley 81 FTE
NAT-TCR 4795-Aa-Ord-Chicago - Ohare-Ord-Trml 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1071 Fall River 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 057522-Stk-Calaveras Sta 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 198936-Top-Hicrest Sta 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hunter Idealease Inc. - Etna 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pine Valley 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hinesville Operating - 923W Oglethorpe Hwy. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE NGL Storage 20 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: 2022, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.