Building materials supply dealers · Massachusetts

Howe Lumber

East Brookfield, MA · ~45 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howe Lumber runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Building materials supply dealers workplace, earning a grade C.

Howe Lumber: 3.4 TCR = 101% of Building materials supply dealers BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howe Lumber safety composite

Howe Lumber scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Howe Lumber: 2.4 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.04× in 2024

Howe Lumber's TCR rose 4.7 from 2.4 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · East Brookfield, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 101% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #12/36
  • PHOTO Pulaski St.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pulaski St. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howe Lumber in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howe Lumber averages 3.4 TCR (101% of the Building materials supply dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Howe Lumber TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=10 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=7 · BLS 3.4

Where Howe Lumber falls in its industry

1,643 Building materials supply deal establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 36 Building materials supply deal employers in Massachusetts.

Howe Lumber (45 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Howe Lumber
Howe Lumber (45 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Howe Lumber has more employees than the Building materials supply dealers 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 7.0 7.0 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.5 2.3 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2019 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2017 10.0 10.0 4 0 0
2016 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · MA · East Brookfield

1,643 Building materials supply dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts 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 Pulaski St. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Honolulu HI -GWK 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raleigh NC Yard 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BVL - COLUMBUS 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Resinate, Inc. - Douglas 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canal Generating LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTHAMPTON-MA32 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE WILMINGTON-MA57 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Parts Distribution Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR EastCoast Mouldings 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Signature Custom Cabinetry, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ernst Trucking Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Interstate Landscaping of MS, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ward Trucking LLC-Scranton 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Hall 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverland Energy Cooperative 45 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.