Veneer mills, hardwood · Wisconsin

Great Lakes Veneer, Inc.

Marion, WI · ~180 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Veneer mills, hardwood workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Lakes Veneer, Inc.: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Veneer mills, hardwood BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. safety composite

Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Great Lakes Veneer, Inc.: 3.3 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2021

Great Lakes Veneer, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.4 from 3.3 in 2018 to 6.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321211 · Marion, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #5/12
  • PHOTO Flexible Materials Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flexible Materials Inc (0.2 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Veneer mills, hardwood BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. TCR series: 2018=3.3 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. falls in its industry

116 Veneer mills, hardwood establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 12 Veneer mills, hardwood employers in Wisconsin.

Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. (180 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Lakes Veneer, Inc.
Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. (180 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. has more employees than the Veneer mills, hardwood median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2021 6.7 5.0 12 0 0
2020 4.8 3.4 7 0 0
2019 7.4 5.7 12 1 0
2018 3.3 1.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321211 · WI · Marion

116 Veneer mills, hardwood employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 4 employers in Marion, WI · 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 Flexible Materials Inc 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay View Industries, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oak Hill Veneer 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inland Plywood Company 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milwaukee WI (Sandwich Bros) 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aacer Flooring 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Pallet Corp. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Little Rapids Corporation - Shawano Mill 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marion Body Works 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. (formerly known as Marion Plywood Corporation) 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kohel Interstate Transport 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Avnatara Clark City 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR K1 Plant 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CSS Farms - Minden 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR St Joseph Regional Medical Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 0629 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE 49431a - Sylmar Mega 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE 49411b - San Diego Zone Mega 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1041 - Richmond West 180 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.