Logging · California

John Wheeler Logging, Inc.

Red Bluff, CA · ~70 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

John Wheeler Logging, Inc. runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Logging workplace, earning a grade D.

John Wheeler Logging, Inc.: 5.6 TCR = 124% of Logging BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Wheeler Logging, Inc. safety composite

John Wheeler Logging, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

John Wheeler Logging, Inc.: 2.4 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

John Wheeler Logging, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.0 from 2.4 in 2019 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 113310 · Red Bluff, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 124% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO Dave Bekkevar Loggin…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dave Bekkevar Logging & Trucking, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Wheeler Logging, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John Wheeler Logging, Inc. averages 5.6 TCR (124% of the Logging BLS benchmark).

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

John Wheeler Logging, Inc. TCR series: 2019=2.4 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 4.5

Where John Wheeler Logging, Inc. falls in its industry

177 Logging establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Logging employers in California.

John Wheeler Logging, Inc. (70 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate John Wheeler Logging, Inc.
John Wheeler Logging, Inc. (70 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 4.8

John Wheeler Logging, Inc. has more employees than the Logging median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 5.4 5.4 3 0 0
2023 8.7 6.5 4 0 0
2022 6.5 5.2 5 0 1
2021 6.4 6.4 4 0 0
2020 4.1 4.1 3 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

113310 · CA · Red Bluff

177 Logging employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 53 employers in Red Bluff, CA · 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 Dave Bekkevar Logging & Trucking, Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardner Logging Services Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robert S. Coleman Lumber Co., Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robin A. Crawford & Son Woods 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heritage Land Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ceballos Ag Services, Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRTHN 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE EW Merritt Farms 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6026 996 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6026 842 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Tehama 787 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 27 570 FTE
NAT-TCR Protofab Engineering 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Allstar Glass Company 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SCC003 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Charles Parish Hospital 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Yaboo Fence Co Inc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dura Coat Products, Inc. 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bighorn Logging Corp 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Electronic Repair Services 70 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. 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.