Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing · Vermont

Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT

Newport, VT · ~196 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT: 6.1 TCR = 186% of Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT safety composite

Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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 - Newport, VT: 5.4 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.2× in 2021

Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT's TCR rose 1.4 from 5.4 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321211 · Newport, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 186% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK P47
  • PHOTO Indiana Veneer
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indiana Veneer (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT averages 6.1 TCR (186% 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 - Newport, VT TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2021=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT falls in its industry

116 Hardwood veneer or plywood man establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT (196 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 - Newport, VT
Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT (196 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT 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
2021 6.8 1.3 5 6 0
2016 5.4 4.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321211 · VT · Newport

116 Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 11 employers in Newport, VT · 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 Indiana Veneer 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coldwater Veneer, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iowa Prison Industries 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bessemer Plywood Corporation 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kaman Composites - Vermont 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4156 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8355 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vermont Permanency Initiative 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Galvion 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Forest Products 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Revision Military 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9288-476 49 FTE
NAT-TCR American Spotting Company of Missouri 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Corrective Asphalt Materials, LLC 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Suwannee Health and Rehabilitation Center 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Harbortown Clinic 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pharmasol 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-CSSD 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turkey Service Building 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oliver 196 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: 2021, 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.