Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts · Maine

Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill

Bethel, ME · ~94 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill runs at 331% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts workplace, earning a grade F.

Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill: 10.9 TCR = 331% of Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill safety composite

Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill: 8.7 → 15.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill's TCR rose 6.5 from 8.7 in 2018 to 15.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Bethel, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 331% of ind

  • DART 13.1 DART
  • RANK #19/24
  • PHOTO Britton Lumber Compa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Britton Lumber Company-Bath (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill averages 10.9 TCR (331% of the Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts BLS benchmark).

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

Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill TCR series: 2018=8.7 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=10.7 · 2024=15.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill falls in its industry

905 Boards, wood, made from logs o establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 24 Boards, wood, made from logs o employers in Maine.

Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill (94 employees, TCR 10.9) 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 Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill
Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill (94 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Hancock Lumber Company-Bethel Sawmill has more employees than the Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts 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 Fatalities
2024 15.2 13.1 13 2 0
2023 10.7 5.3 5 5 0
2022 9.2 3.0 3 6 0
2018 8.7 3.9 7 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · ME · Bethel

905 Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 3 employers in Bethel, ME · 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 Britton Lumber Company-Bath 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Victory Lumber LLC 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jim C. Hamer Company - Madison Mill 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alta Forest Products Amanda Park 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poland Spring 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Steel And Aluminum - South Portland 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE 08143 - Store # 8143 Boothbay Harbor 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8110 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cross Excavation Inc 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Douglas W Jones Inc 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Bernicks Pepsi & Chas A Bernick of St Cloud 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Collinwood 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterbury Plating, LLC 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MetalKraft 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Complete Building Maintenance 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE FreshPoint Nashville 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE INTERFACE FLOR LLC Graham Scott Technical Center 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gillette Nursing Home 94 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, 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.