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

Forest Products-Newton

Newton, KS · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forest Products-Newton runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Forest Products-Newton: 2.4 TCR = 108% of Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forest Products-Newton safety composite

Forest Products-Newton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−4.8

2022→2023

Forest Products-Newton injury rate improved

Forest Products-Newton's TCR fell 4.8 from 4.8 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Newton, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/18
  • PHOTO Lake County FL Admin
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lake County FL Admin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forest Products-Newton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forest Products-Newton averages 2.4 TCR (108% 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

Forest Products-Newton TCR series: 2022=4.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Forest Products-Newton falls in its industry

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

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 18 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finishe employers in Kansas.

Forest Products-Newton (21 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Forest Products-Newton
Forest Products-Newton (21 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Forest Products-Newton has fewer employees than the Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.8 4.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · KS · Newton

1,225 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 32 employers in Newton, KS · 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 Lake County FL Admin 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Russin Lumber Corp 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conner Industries 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7400 HELENA LBM 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP 101-107, 127 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoky Hills Genetics, LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bison Rush Genetics, LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gordon Evans Energy Center 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR NMC Health 933 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masterbrand Cabinets 519 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2428 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2428 281 FTE
NAT-TCR Tallgrass Senior Living 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Westfall Construction Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Welders Supply 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Feild Work 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Les Schwab Tire Center-Kennewick 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Armstrong Garden Centers 717 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Armstrong Garden Centers 716 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Les Schwab Tire Center-Spokane Veradale 21 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. 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.