Sawmills · West Virginia

Dingess Lumber Company

Belington, WV · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dingess Lumber Company runs at 384% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Dingess Lumber Company: 12.7 TCR = 384% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dingess Lumber Company safety composite

Dingess Lumber Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−3.2

2023→2024

Dingess Lumber Company injury rate improved

Dingess Lumber Company's TCR fell 3.2 from 14.3 in 2023 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=14.3 · 2024=11.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Belington, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 384% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #18/22
  • PHOTO Sierra Pacific Indus…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sierra Pacific Industries, Quincy Division (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dingess Lumber Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dingess Lumber Company averages 12.7 TCR (384% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Dingess Lumber Company TCR series: 2023=14.3 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Dingess Lumber Company falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 22 Sawmills employers in West Virginia.

Dingess Lumber Company (27 employees, TCR 12.7) 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 Dingess Lumber Company
Dingess Lumber Company (27 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Dingess Lumber Company has fewer employees than the Sawmills median and a higher 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
2024 11.1 7.4 3 0 0
2023 14.3 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · WV · Belington

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 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 Sierra Pacific Industries, Quincy Division 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shot Gun Inc., DBA The Barrel Mill 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pike Lumber Company- Akron 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sawco Hardwoods 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danhill Construction Co. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE AM Communications WV 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Electric, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-TCR Jesco Industries, INC 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jamaica Cottage Shop Inc. 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Somerset REC 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporation Yard 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ohio Magnetics, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village Roofing Co Inc 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Centro 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cotati 27 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. 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.