Lumber retailing yards · Wisconsin

Hartje Lumber, Inc.

La Valle, WI · ~50 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hartje Lumber, Inc. runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lumber retailing yards workplace, earning a grade D.

Hartje Lumber, Inc.: 6.2 TCR = 183% of Lumber retailing yards BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hartje Lumber, Inc. safety composite

Hartje Lumber, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

Hartje Lumber, Inc.: 2.1 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2024

Hartje Lumber, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.9 from 2.1 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · La Valle, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 183% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #22/33
  • PHOTO 6568_15160
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6568_15160 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hartje Lumber, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hartje Lumber, Inc. averages 6.2 TCR (183% of the Lumber retailing yards BLS benchmark).

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

Hartje Lumber, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2018=4 · 2019=9.9 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=7.6 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.4

Where Hartje Lumber, Inc. falls in its industry

1,643 Lumber retailing yards establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 33 Lumber retailing yards employers in Wisconsin.

Hartje Lumber, Inc. (50 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hartje Lumber, Inc.
Hartje Lumber, Inc. (50 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Hartje Lumber, Inc. has more employees than the Lumber retailing yards 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 6.0 2.0 3 0 0
2023 8.1 6.0 4 0 0
2022 8.1 4.0 4 0 0
2021 7.6 1.9 4 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2019 9.9 7.9 5 0 0
2018 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · WI · La Valle

1,643 Lumber retailing yards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 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 6568_15160 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Griffin Lumber & Hardware 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Building Center Inc - Columbia 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DL - DESERT LUMBER-SOUTH 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ferguson's Morningside Orchard LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windsor 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pagels Ponderosa Cropping LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE A&M Dittrich Mink Farm 50 FTE
NAT-TCR Valley View Villa 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Loma Linda University Medical Center 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LewisGale Hospital Montgomery 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Century Center for Rehabilitation and Healing 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elite Family Systems 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerace Construction 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale North Richland Hills 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alabama Wire Products 50 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.