Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers · Montana

Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman

Bozeman, MT · ~65 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman runs at 520% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman: 11.4 TCR = 520% of Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman safety composite

Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.1

2016→2023

Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman injury rate improved

Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman's TCR fell 9.1 from 15.0 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=15.0 · 2017=12.7 · 2018=13.3 · 2019=4.4 · 2021=17.4 · 2023=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Bozeman, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 520% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO D&M Industries Moorh…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D&M Industries Moorhead (0.1 TCR gap)

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Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman averages 11.4 TCR (520% of the Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman TCR series: 2016=15 · 2017=12.7 · 2018=13.3 · 2019=4.4 · 2021=17.4 · 2023=5.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman falls in its industry

1,225 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finishe establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finishe employers in Montana.

Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman (65 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 020406080100120 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman
Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman (65 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Empire Building Materials Inc. - Bozeman has more employees than the Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2023 5.9 1.5 4 0 0
2021 17.4 5.3 13 0 0
2019 4.4 0.0 3 0 0
2018 13.3 5.9 9 0 0
2017 12.7 0.0 8 0 0
2016 15.0 3.0 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · MT · Bozeman

1,225 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 136 employers in Bozeman, MT · 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 D&M Industries Moorhead 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Division 03 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tucker Columbia 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Falls Service Center 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamond Construction Inc 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Easton Concrete 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Third Element 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital 1,739 FTE
CITY-NEAR BZNPW9672 BZN - FRONTIER PAX R 1,543 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2084 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2084 325 FTE
NAT-TCR 225 Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Santa Fe Labor, LLC 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlgn - La Grande 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Velan Valve 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rockford Fasteners 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ward Nipple 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCH Hale Ave 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Production Facility 65 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: 2023, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.