Kiln drying lumber · Kentucky

Little River Hardwoods

Cadiz, KY · ~37 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Little River Hardwoods runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Kiln drying lumber workplace, earning a grade D.

Little River Hardwoods: 4.5 TCR = 137% of Kiln drying lumber BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Little River Hardwoods safety composite

Little River Hardwoods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Little River Hardwoods: 0.0 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2019

Little River Hardwoods's TCR rose 11.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Cadiz, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 137% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #5/10
  • PHOTO Carrollton Reels - A…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carrollton Reels - A833 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Little River Hardwoods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Little River Hardwoods averages 4.5 TCR (137% of the Kiln drying lumber BLS benchmark).

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

Little River Hardwoods TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=2 · 2019=11.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Little River Hardwoods falls in its industry

405 Kiln drying lumber establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 10 Kiln drying lumber employers in Kentucky.

Little River Hardwoods (37 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Little River Hardwoods
Little River Hardwoods (37 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Little River Hardwoods has fewer employees than the Kiln drying lumber median and a lower 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
2019 11.9 6.0 2 0 0
2018 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 4.2 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · KY · Cadiz

405 Kiln drying lumber employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 14 employers in Cadiz, 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 Carrollton Reels - A833 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Stairways, INC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dadant & Sons Inc Candle Factory 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpine 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Big Rivers Electric Corporation - ET&S 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE CW Assemblies LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2850 RUSSELLVILLE BOWLING GREEN KY 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ontrac Inc Dba Blitz Builders Inc 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cadiz Operations 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabash Cadiz 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trigg County Hospital 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prizer Point Marina & Resort 96 FTE
NAT-TCR Detroit Lake EMS 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Addiction Recovery Enterprise - CARE Carlton 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 2094 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amish Wedding Foods, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jr Faulkner Excavation II, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Addiction Recovery Enterprise - CARE Anoka 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Facemyer Landscaping, LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blaire House of Tewksbury Assisted Living Facility 37 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: 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.