Sawed lumber made in sawmills · Maine

Chester Forest Products LLC

Chester, ME · ~14 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chester Forest Products LLC runs at 297% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawed lumber made in sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Chester Forest Products LLC: 9.8 TCR = 297% of Sawed lumber made in sawmills BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chester Forest Products LLC safety composite

Chester Forest Products LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Chester Forest Products LLC: 0.0 → 23.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 23.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.82× in 2024

Chester Forest Products LLC's TCR rose 23.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 23.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Chester, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 297% of ind

  • DART 17.8 DART
  • RANK #15/24
  • PHOTO Lashway Lumber, Inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lashway Lumber, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chester Forest Products LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chester Forest Products LLC averages 9.8 TCR (297% 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

Chester Forest Products LLC TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=22.7 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=0 · 2024=23.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Chester Forest Products LLC falls in its industry

905 Sawed lumber made in sawmills establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 24 Sawed lumber made in sawmills employers in Maine.

Chester Forest Products LLC (14 employees, TCR 9.8) 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 Chester Forest Products LLC
Chester Forest Products LLC (14 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Chester Forest Products LLC has fewer employees than the Sawed lumber made in 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
2024 23.7 17.8 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2019 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2018 22.7 18.9 6 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · ME · Chester

905 Sawed lumber made in sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 8 employers in Chester, ME · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Lashway Lumber, Inc 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckhorn Saw Mill & Millwork Distribution 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RAM FOREST PRODUCTS, INC. 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taramarack Mill, LLC dba Evergreen Forest 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE PURITAN SAS PITTSFIELD 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE ND PAPER - RUMFORD 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maine Corporate 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rumford 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treeline Inc. 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robin A. Crawford & Son Woods 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR W.T. Gardner & Sons, Inc 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR WT Gardner & Sons Inc 61 FTE
NAT-TCR Edlon, Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Manor Stratmore 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Portside at Grande Dunes 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ramler Trucking Inc 9.8 TCR

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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.