Sawmills · Kentucky

KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc

Somerset, KY · ~63 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc runs at 404% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc: 13.3 TCR = 404% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc safety composite

KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc: 10.7 → 15.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc's TCR rose 4.7 from 10.7 in 2022 to 15.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Somerset, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 404% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #25/28
  • PHOTO Redwood Empire Sawmill
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Redwood Empire Sawmill (0.0 TCR gap)

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KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc averages 13.3 TCR (404% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc TCR series: 2022=10.7 · 2023=13.9 · 2024=15.4 · BLS 3.3

Where KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 28 Sawmills employers in Kentucky.

KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc (63 employees, TCR 13.3) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc
KY Hardwood Lumber, Inc (63 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

KY Hardwood Lumber, 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
2024 15.4 12.0 9 0 0
2023 13.9 6.9 8 0 0
2022 10.7 3.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · KY · Somerset

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 88 employers in Somerset, KY · 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 Redwood Empire Sawmill 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside Sawmill, Inc. 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hancock Lumber Company- Pittsfield Sawmill 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beasley Forest Products, Inc 13.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Airdrie Stud 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Water District 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisville KY 1 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEKRI - Paris 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital 1,346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyotetsu America, Inc. 1,099 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somerset 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR 689 458 FTE
NAT-TCR The Home City Ice Company Rogers 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Eanes Heating and Air 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Millwood, Inc. Waco TX 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - SLC3 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern Spring and Stamping 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keesen Landscape Management, Broomfield 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Basney Imports, inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE KJJ Industries LLC 63 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. 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.