Sawmill equipment manufacturing · Alabama

Cook's Saw MFG LLC

Newton, AL · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cook's Saw MFG LLC runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawmill equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Cook's Saw MFG LLC: 9.3 TCR = 281% of Sawmill equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cook's Saw MFG LLC safety composite

Cook's Saw MFG LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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 9.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Cook's Saw MFG LLC: 9.7 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Cook's Saw MFG LLC's TCR rose 1.2 from 9.7 in 2022 to 10.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333243 · Newton, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 281% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Freres Engineered Wood
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Freres Engineered Wood (0.3 TCR gap)

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Cook's Saw MFG LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cook's Saw MFG LLC averages 9.3 TCR (281% of the Sawmill equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cook's Saw MFG LLC TCR series: 2022=9.7 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=10.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Cook's Saw MFG LLC falls in its industry

137 Sawmill equipment manufacturin establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Sawmill equipment manufacturin employers in Alabama.

Cook's Saw MFG LLC (40 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cook's Saw MFG LLC
Cook's Saw MFG LLC (40 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cook's Saw MFG LLC has fewer employees than the Sawmill equipment manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 10.9 8.2 4 0 0
2023 7.2 4.8 3 0 0
2022 9.7 7.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333243 · AL · Newton

137 Sawmill equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 4 employers in Newton, AL · 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 Freres Engineered Wood 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWEED MACHINERY INC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Headquarters 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Factory 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plant Central Alabama - APC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jasper Office 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeast Division Eufaula State Docks Complex 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consolidated Construction Co. of Ala. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coast to Coast Coatings 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Comfort Systems USA Southeast. Dothan Div 40/10 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dothan AL 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Courtyard Los Angeles Sherman Oaks 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Agri Direct of Selma 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Conyers Plasma Center 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #321 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE J & S Manufacturing Co., Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petro CT - North Haven 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nahan Printing Montgomerville PA 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Forest Products Inc. 40 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.