Pressed logs of sawdust and other wood particles, nonpetroleum binder, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Lignetics Great Lakes

Hayward, WI · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lignetics Great Lakes runs at 425% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pressed logs of sawdust and other wood particles, nonpetroleum binder, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Lignetics Great Lakes: 14.0 TCR = 425% of Pressed logs of sawdust and other wood particles, nonpetroleum binder, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lignetics Great Lakes safety composite

Lignetics Great Lakes scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.2

2023→2024

Lignetics Great Lakes injury rate improved

Lignetics Great Lakes's TCR fell 6.2 from 17.1 in 2023 to 10.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=17.1 · 2024=10.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Hayward, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 425% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #30/30
  • PHOTO Northland Cabinets, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northland Cabinets, Inc. (0.3 TCR gap)

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Lignetics Great Lakes in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lignetics Great Lakes averages 14.0 TCR (425% of the Pressed logs of sawdust and other wood particles, nonpetroleum binder, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lignetics Great Lakes TCR series: 2023=17.1 · 2024=10.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Lignetics Great Lakes falls in its industry

405 Pressed logs of sawdust and ot establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 30 Pressed logs of sawdust and ot employers in Wisconsin.

Lignetics Great Lakes (24 employees, TCR 14.0) 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 Lignetics Great Lakes
Lignetics Great Lakes (24 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lignetics Great Lakes has fewer employees than the Pressed logs of sawdust and other wood p 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
2024 10.9 10.9 3 0 0
2023 17.1 4.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · WI · Hayward

405 Pressed logs of sawdust and other wood particles, nonpetroleum binder, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 20 employers in Hayward, WI · 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 Northland Cabinets, Inc. 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lignetics of Maine 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olon Industries Inc 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carris Reels VT 13.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Huntsinger Farms, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weiss Family Farms, Incorporated 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omro Dairy, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrim's Hatchery 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3245 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR Louisiana-Pacific Hayward 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3245 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2583 Market Place Hayward, WI 132 FTE
NAT-TCR Flftm - Ft Myers 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR National Management Resources Rockford University 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McMinnville #041 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 090-NBH-HANOVER 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aeromat Plastics 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBSI Hagerstown 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE New England Gypsum Manchester 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Karpp Boston 24 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. 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.