Lumber · Louisiana

Dodson Lumber

Dodson, LA · ~161 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dodson Lumber runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Lumber workplace, earning a grade B.

Dodson Lumber: 2.6 TCR = 79% of Lumber BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dodson Lumber safety composite

Dodson Lumber scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dodson Lumber: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2024

Dodson Lumber's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Dodson, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #7/13
  • PHOTO Middleton Lumber Com…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Middleton Lumber Company, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dodson Lumber in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dodson Lumber averages 2.6 TCR (79% of the Lumber BLS benchmark).

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

Dodson Lumber TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=5.2 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Dodson Lumber falls in its industry

905 Lumber establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 13 Lumber employers in Louisiana.

Dodson Lumber (161 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Dodson Lumber
Dodson Lumber (161 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Dodson Lumber has more employees than the Lumber 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
2024 2.1 1.1 4 0 0
2023 2.1 0.5 3 1 0
2022 3.7 2.6 7 0 0
2020 5.2 3.4 5 4 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · LA · Dodson

905 Lumber employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 5 employers in Dodson, LA · 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 Middleton Lumber Company, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fiber Processing plant 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Builders Supply - Clermont Lumber 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan Lumber Co., Inc. 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Big Cajun II 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brame Energy Center 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at ExxonMobil Polyolefins Baton Rouge LA 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Mary Sugar Cooperative, Inc. 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America : Dodson 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dodson 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0308 - Fiber-Louisiana 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arclin Dodson La. 31 FTE
NAT-TCR 1975 - Houston Meyerland 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pti Sand & Gravel Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mohegan Sun 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Merit Health Central 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1373 - Meriden 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2816 - Madison 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2727 - Moore 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2367 - Cleveland 161 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, 2020, 2019. 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.