Sawed lumber made in sawmills · Illinois

Great Northern Lumber

Name: Great Northern Lumber Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Blue Island, IL · ~67 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Great Northern Lumber runs at 278% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawed lumber made in sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Great Northern Lumber: 9.2 TCR = 278% of Sawed lumber made in sawmills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Northern Lumber safety composite

Great Northern Lumber scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers
DART rate: F 11.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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 Northern Lumber: 9.0 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2019

Great Northern Lumber's TCR rose 4.3 from 9.0 in 2016 to 13.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Blue Island, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 278% of ind

DART 11.4 DART
RANK P24
PHOTO Associated Pallet, I…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Associated Pallet, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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9.2
Associated Pal

9.2
Pulliam Lumber

9.1
Conner Chester

9.1
Altenburg Hard

9.1

What this shows Great Northern Lumber averages 9.2 TCR (278% of the Sawed lumber made in sawmills BLS benchmark).

Great Northern Lumber TCR series: 2016=9 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=13.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Northern Lumber falls in its industry

905 Sawed lumber made in sawmills establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Great Northern Lumber (67 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Great Northern Lumber has fewer employees than the Sawed lumber made in sawmills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2019	13.3	11.4	5	2
2018	5.2	3.5	3	0
2016	9.0	6.4	7	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · IL · Blue Island

905 Sawed lumber made in sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 27 employers in Blue Island, IL · 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	Associated Pallet, Inc.	SOUTH CARROLLTON, KY	9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pulliam Lumber Company Inc	MITCHELL, GA	9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Conner Chester Plant	CHESTER, VA	9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Altenburg Hardwood Lumber Company	ALTENBURG, MO	9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Decatur Cogeneration	DECATUR	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SWECO - Chicago	CHICAGO	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Galesburg	GALESBURG	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	75G - Western S - IL Gas Ops	MARYVILLE	67 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MetroSouth Medical Center	Blue Island	853 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elementary School	Blue Island	505 FTE
CITY-NEAR	130-Chicago South	Blue Island	250 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago Magnesium Casting Company	Blue Island	117 FTE
NAT-TCR	Nash Mechanical, LLC	Coleman, FL	9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Princetown Ridge	Rotterdam, NY	9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	DI - CFT Davis-Monthan	Davis-Monthan Afb, AZ	9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	1 Apollo Rd	Plymouth Meeting, PA	9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	All Cycle Hauling	Williston, VT	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Houston SDO	Houston, TX	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Concept Companies, Inc.	Gainesville, FL	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	SPX Heat Transfer LLC	Tulsa, OK	67 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.