Veneer mills, softwood · Oregon

Foster Mill

Name: Foster Mill Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Sweet Home, OR · ~85 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Foster Mill runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Veneer mills, softwood workplace, earning a grade B.

Foster Mill: 2.3 TCR = 70% of Veneer mills, softwood BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foster Mill safety composite

Foster Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Foster Mill: 0.8 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Foster Mill's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.8 in 2023 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321212 · Sweet Home, OR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 70% of ind

DART 2.3 DART
RANK #5/17
PHOTO GA330 Warm Springs P…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GA330 Warm Springs Plywood (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.3
GA330 Warm Spr

2.3
Willamina - WP

2.2
Pollock Plywoo

2.1
Oakdale Plywoo

2

What this shows Foster Mill averages 2.3 TCR (70% of the Veneer mills, softwood BLS benchmark).

Foster Mill TCR series: 2023=0.8 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Foster Mill falls in its industry

68 Veneer mills, softwood establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 17 Veneer mills, softwood employers in Oregon.

Foster Mill (85 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 238 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Foster Mill has fewer employees than the Veneer mills, softwood median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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	3.9	2.3	4	1	0
2023	0.8	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321212 · OR · Sweet Home

68 Veneer mills, softwood employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 15 employers in Sweet Home, OR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	GA330 Warm Springs Plywood	WARM SPRINGS, GA	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Willamina - WP	WILLAMINA, OR	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pollock Plywood Plant	POLLOCK, LA	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Oakdale Plywood - WP	OAKDALE, LA	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Fernhill Holly Farms	ASTORIA	85 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Multnomah County Bldg 425/Yeon Bldg	PORTLAND	85 FTE
STATE-SIZE	City of Bend - Street, Fleet & Facilities	BEND	85 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DG3, Inc. dba Dallas Glass	SALEM	85 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sweet Home School District #55	Sweet Home	376 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SWY-0019-0019-01710 FAC-01710-SWEET HOME-OR	Sweet Home	131 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sweet Home	Sweet Home	128 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6400-SWY-0019-0019-01710	Sweet Home	121 FTE
NAT-TCR	ESP	Laurens, SC	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Holy Redeemer Home Care and Hospice- Warminster	Warminister, PA	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	County Counsel/RM	Visalia, CA	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	City of Madisonville - Electric Distribution	Madisonville, KY	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Printron Engravers, Inc.	Neenah, WI	85 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Landscaping Services, Inc.	Bristol, RI	85 FTE
NAT-SIZE	San Miguel Consolidated Fire Protection District	Spring Valley, CA	85 FTE
NAT-SIZE	International Operations & Services USA LLC	Miami, FL	85 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.