Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing · Virginia

Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill

Chatham, VA · ~161 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill: 7.6 TCR = 229% of Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill safety composite

Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill: 3.8 → 22.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 22.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.26× in 2020

Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill's TCR rose 19.1 from 3.8 in 2016 to 22.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321211 · Chatham, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 229% of ind

  • DART 17.1 DART
  • RANK P27
  • PHOTO Edinburgh DVA
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Edinburgh DVA (0.1 TCR gap)

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Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill averages 7.6 TCR (229% of the Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=22.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill falls in its industry

116 Hardwood veneer or plywood man establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill (161 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill
Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill (161 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Columbia Forest Products - Chatham Mill has more employees than the Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2020 22.8 17.1 3 1 0
2019 2.3 1.2 4 0 0
2018 5.2 4.6 9 0 0
2017 3.7 1.8 6 0 0
2016 3.8 2.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321211 · VA · Chatham

116 Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 19 employers in Chatham, VA · 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 Edinburgh DVA 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mahogany Company of Mays Landing, Inc 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Production 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR B & C Wood Components LLC 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Haley Toyota of Richmond 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2691 LOWE S OF E. RICHMOND VA 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0113 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0687 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green Rock Correctional Center 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davenport Energy, Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00464 - STORE # 464 CHATHAM 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR First Piedmont Corporation 84 FTE
NAT-TCR Utility Tri-State, Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gabriel Phenoxies Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Solaris Healthcare Charlotte Harbor 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Egg 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ternium 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Letcher Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Essentra HPC Guaynabo 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Memphis CCA 161 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.