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

Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula

Missoula, MT · ~26 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula runs at 568% 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.-Missoula: 12.5 TCR = 568% of Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula safety composite

Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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 12.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula: 11.5 → 21.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 21.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2023

Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula's TCR rose 9.6 from 11.5 in 2016 to 21.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 568% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Cedar Creek LLC Nash…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cedar Creek LLC Nashville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula averages 12.5 TCR (568% 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.-Missoula TCR series: 2016=11.5 · 2017=11.5 · 2018=11.5 · 2019=19.2 · 2021=0 · 2023=21.1 · BLS 2.2

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

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

Safer than 6% 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 #8 safest of 10 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finishe employers in Montana.

Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula (26 employees, TCR 12.5) 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.-Missoula
Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula (26 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula has fewer 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 21.1 5.3 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 19.2 7.7 5 0 0
2018 11.5 7.7 3 0 0
2017 11.5 7.7 3 0 0
2016 11.5 3.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · MT · Missoula

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 · 181 employers in Missoula, 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 Cedar Creek LLC Nashville 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capitol Door & Hardware Co., Inc. 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer West - Centennial 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van Matre Lumber Company - Fontana 12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Parke Logging Inc. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rainbow Dam 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheridan Electric Co-op, Inc. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guy Tabacco Construction 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000460 2,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR MT190 ST PATRICK HOSPITAL-BROADWAY BLDG-MISSOU 1,966 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Medical Center 985 FTE
CITY-NEAR MSSLMTXA 670 FTE
NAT-TCR Henry Bosma Orchard 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Baker Manufacturing Company LLC 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1681 Rpb88 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Easton Police Department 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE JAN Resources 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guns Fishing and Other Stuff 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE O'Neill Super Foods 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robesonia Store 26 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.