Sawmills · Wisconsin

Kersten Lumber Company, Inc

Birnamwood, WI · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kersten Lumber Company, Inc runs at 698% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Kersten Lumber Company, Inc: 23.0 TCR = 698% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kersten Lumber Company, Inc safety composite

Kersten Lumber Company, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−44.2

2017→2021

Kersten Lumber Company, Inc injury rate improved

Kersten Lumber Company, Inc's TCR fell 44.2 from 44.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 44.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=44.2 · 2018=29.3 · 2019=18.6 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Birnamwood, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.0 · 698% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/35
  • PHOTO Yellowstone Log Homes
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yellowstone Log Homes (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kersten Lumber Company, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kersten Lumber Company, Inc averages 23.0 TCR (698% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Kersten Lumber Company, Inc TCR series: 2017=44.2 · 2018=29.3 · 2019=18.6 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Kersten Lumber Company, Inc falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #35 safest of 35 Sawmills employers in Wisconsin.

Kersten Lumber Company, Inc (26 employees, TCR 23.0) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kersten Lumber Company, Inc
Kersten Lumber Company, Inc (26 employees, TCR 23.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Kersten Lumber Company, Inc has fewer employees than the Sawmills 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 18.6 13.9 4 0 0
2018 29.3 12.6 6 1 0
2017 44.2 44.2 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · WI · Birnamwood

905 Sawmills 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 Yellowstone Log Homes 23.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 41-348053987-2023 22.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cass Forest Products Sawmill 23.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill 23.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE WORZELLA & SONS, INC. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spring Grove Dairy 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ross Soil Service LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABS 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Full Circle Seattle Warehouse 23.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RDU - Ground Ops 23.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Refuse Division - Honolulu Collection Yard 23.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackrabbit Family Farms, LLC 23.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Craddock Terry Hotel 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calvert 4416 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sam's Xpress Car Wash 307 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Operations Center 26 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: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.