Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing · Oregon

Columbia Forest Products

Klamath Falls, OR · ~314 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia Forest Products runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Columbia Forest Products: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia Forest Products safety composite

Columbia Forest Products scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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: 5.7 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Columbia Forest Products's TCR rose 1.0 from 5.7 in 2022 to 6.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321211 · Klamath Falls, OR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Saunders Wood Specia…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~314 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saunders Wood Specialties, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbia Forest Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia Forest Products averages 5.0 TCR (152% 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 TCR series: 2022=5.7 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Columbia Forest Products falls in its industry

116 Hardwood veneer or plywood man establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Hardwood veneer or plywood man employers in Oregon.

Columbia Forest Products (314 employees, TCR 5.0) 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
Columbia Forest Products (314 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Columbia Forest Products has more employees than the Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 6.7 4.5 18 0 0
2023 2.6 1.7 8 0 0
2022 5.7 4.0 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321211 · OR · Klamath Falls

116 Hardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 112 employers in Klamath Falls, OR · 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 Saunders Wood Specialties, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flexsteel Commercial Office 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Forest Products 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BriMar Wood Innovations 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 701-00240 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eugene Police Department 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rosboro-Springfield 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE Core-Mark International 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sky Lakes Medical Center, Inc. 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0007 - US Products Admin 631 FTE
CITY-NEAR ED Staub & Sons 582 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ed Staub & Sons Petroleum Inc. 548 FTE
NAT-TCR Bobcat of Indy - Indianapolis 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR VEKA East 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 4640 - Conover 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR M Three Ranches, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific Frederick MD (Distribution) 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Ritz Carlton Dove Mountain 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE DM Burr Group - Facilities Management - UAB Division 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Francisco Department of Building Inspection 314 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, 2022. 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.