Sawmills · New York

Gutchess Lumber Company

Cortland, NY · ~224 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gutchess Lumber Company runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade B.

Gutchess Lumber Company: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gutchess Lumber Company safety composite

Gutchess Lumber Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Gutchess Lumber Company: 1.9 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.93× in 2024

Gutchess Lumber Company's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.9 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Cortland, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #2/28
  • PHOTO FL170 Palatka Chipmill
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FL170 Palatka Chipmill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gutchess Lumber Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gutchess Lumber Company averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Gutchess Lumber Company TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=0.1 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=0.1 · 2023=0.1 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Gutchess Lumber Company falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 28 Sawmills employers in New York.

Gutchess Lumber Company (224 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gutchess Lumber Company
Gutchess Lumber Company (224 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Gutchess Lumber Company has more employees than the Sawmills median and a lower 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 Fatalities
2024 3.7 3.7 7 0 0
2023 0.1 0.1 12 0 0
2022 0.1 0.0 12 0 0
2021 7.8 6.9 17 1 0
2020 0.1 0.0 11 0 0
2019 2.5 0.8 6 0 0
2018 0.7 0.4 2 0 0
2017 0.6 0.6 2 0 0
2016 1.9 0.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · NY · Cortland

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 73 employers in Cortland, NY · 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 FL170 Palatka Chipmill 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terre Haute Hardwoods, LLC, dba/ Kirkham Hardwoods 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mobile, Alabama Sawmill 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE New York, NY HVAC 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cookies United LLC 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essity Professional Hygiene, South Glens Falls 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Collamer Crossings 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hook 1,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cortland YWCA SITE 1,007 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell 990 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinton 990 FTE
NAT-TCR Kleen Test Products - Strasburg 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR QED Environmental Systems Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Spirit Fabs, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Hospital Company of Meridian, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pontiac Service Center 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Stark 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plymouth 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scurto Cement Construction, Ltd. 224 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.