Plywood merchant wholesalers · California

Forest Plywood Sales

La Mirada, CA · ~100 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forest Plywood Sales runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plywood merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Forest Plywood Sales: 3.5 TCR = 160% of Plywood merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forest Plywood Sales safety composite

Forest Plywood Sales scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−1.2

2017→2023

Forest Plywood Sales injury rate improved

Forest Plywood Sales's TCR fell 1.2 from 3.1 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2020=6.5 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · La Mirada, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 160% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #39/96
  • PHOTO KCM Olathe
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KCM Olathe (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forest Plywood Sales in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forest Plywood Sales averages 3.5 TCR (160% of the Plywood merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Forest Plywood Sales TCR series: 2017=3.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2020=6.5 · 2022=3 · 2023=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Forest Plywood Sales falls in its industry

1,225 Plywood merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 96 Plywood merchant wholesalers employers in California.

Forest Plywood Sales (100 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Forest Plywood Sales
Forest Plywood Sales (100 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Forest Plywood Sales has more employees than the Plywood merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2022 3.0 2.0 3 0 0
2020 6.5 4.6 6 1 0
2018 3.1 2.1 3 0 0
2017 3.1 2.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · CA · La Mirada

1,225 Plywood merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 82 employers in La Mirada, CA · 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 KCM Olathe 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOSTETTER SUPPLY COMPANY, INC. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buena Vista Saw Mill 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DACULA (ATLANTA) DC 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4Seasons Farms, LLC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bud of California Cauliflower 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Legacy Growers, LLC. 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE DE CRUZ FLC 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR CALMD - LA MIRADA HUB 952 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Foods Los Angeles 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of La Mirada 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2253-H4823 282 FTE
NAT-TCR Tremco - Mameco 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Air Design Systems 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Spex Certiprep Group, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR County Market #224 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Helena Laboratories Corp - Washington Blvd 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suddath Relocation Systems of Atlanta, Inc. 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE MRC Global -172 La Porte, TX (RDC) 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2086 Severn Distrib Center (Md) 100 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, 2022, 2020, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.