Kiln drying lumber · Ohio

Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua

Piqua, OH · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Kiln drying lumber workplace, earning a grade F.

Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua: 7.4 TCR = 224% of Kiln drying lumber BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua safety composite

Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua: 6.6 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2018

Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua's TCR rose 2.6 from 6.6 in 2016 to 9.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Piqua, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 224% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #18/22
  • PHOTO Warehouse
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Warehouse (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua averages 7.4 TCR (224% of the Kiln drying lumber BLS benchmark).

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

Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=9.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua falls in its industry

405 Kiln drying lumber establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 22 Kiln drying lumber employers in Ohio.

Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua (69 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua
Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua (69 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua has more employees than the Kiln drying lumber median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2018 9.3 4.0 7 0 0
2017 6.3 3.8 5 0 0
2016 6.6 5.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · OH · Piqua

405 Kiln drying lumber employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 65 employers in Piqua, OH · 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 Warehouse 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cersosmio Lumber Company - Hardwick Kiln Dry 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lone Star Reel Inc Lumber Division 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Star International 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Main Office 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cambridge Ohio 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canton South Svc Ctr 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Shelly Company - Northeast Division - HMA 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evenflo Company 298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crane Pumps and Systems 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crane Pumps & Systems Piqua 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3765 267 FTE
NAT-TCR Legends - Walnut Creek 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Boxed Texas 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MedStar Medical Transportation 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-818-Williams Sonoma 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Louis Eye Surgery and Laser Center 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rehabilitation Services, DBA Innovative Rehabilitation 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE 49751p - Colorado Spings Dc 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE NCCOR - Woodstock - Corporate 69 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: 2018, 2017, 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.