Employer · Alabama

Cottonton Sawmill

Cottonton, AL · ~170 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cottonton Sawmill runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Cottonton Sawmill: 1.6 TCR = 47% of industry BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cottonton Sawmill safety composite

Cottonton Sawmill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2016→2018

Cottonton Sawmill injury rate improved

Cottonton Sawmill's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.4 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.4 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Cottonton, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 47% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #13/56
  • PHOTO Wilson Brothers Lumb…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wilson Brothers Lumber Company LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cottonton Sawmill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cottonton Sawmill averages 1.6 TCR (47% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Cottonton Sawmill TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Cottonton Sawmill falls in its industry

905 industry establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 56 industry employers in Alabama.

Cottonton Sawmill (170 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Cottonton Sawmill
Cottonton Sawmill (170 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Cottonton Sawmill has more employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2018 0.9 0.9 2 0 0
2017 2.4 1.9 5 0 0
2016 1.4 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · AL · Cottonton

905 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 5 employers in Cottonton, 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 Wilson Brothers Lumber Company LLC. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linden Sawmill 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roanoke Valley Lumber 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Philadelphia 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scotch Gulf Lumber LLC subsidiary of Canfor Southern Pine 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global Films - Montgomery, AL 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscaloosa 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3495-10D8126 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3721 Mahrt Mill 675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mahrt Mill 656 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3724 Cottonton Sawmill 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR BM18 41 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilton Manors Health & Rehab. Center 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NA-US-TX-El Paso-Founders Blvd. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Radiology, SC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR KCP&L - F&M Service Center 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE ITC Missouri 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE KCP&L - Raytown Customer Service Center 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alameda Oaks Nursing Center 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Haltom 170 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: 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.