Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · West Virginia

Lumber & Things Inc.

Keyser, WV · ~120 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lumber & Things Inc. runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lumber & Things Inc.: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lumber & Things Inc. safety composite

Lumber & Things Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Lumber & Things Inc. held a steady TCR band

Lumber & Things Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 4.1 in 2019 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.1 · 2020=5.6 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Keyser, WV ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Corinth MS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corinth MS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lumber & Things Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lumber & Things Inc. averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lumber & Things Inc. TCR series: 2019=4.1 · 2020=5.6 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Lumber & Things Inc. falls in its industry

952 Pallets, wood or wood and meta establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Pallets, wood or wood and meta employers in West Virginia.

Lumber & Things Inc. (120 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lumber & Things Inc.
Lumber & Things Inc. (120 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Lumber & Things Inc. has more employees than the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combinat median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 4.1 1.4 3 0 0
2020 5.6 4.9 8 0 0
2019 4.1 2.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · WV · Keyser

952 Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 20 employers in Keyser, WV · 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 Corinth MS 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strasburg Pallet Co 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange County Crating 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Missouri Cooperage 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE SI Group, Inc. - Morgantown 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Addivant USA, LLC 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Viking Pools - WV 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parkline, Inc 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2474 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2474 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Automated Packaging Systems LLC of Sealed Air 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Virginia's Choice - Keyser 195 FTE
NAT-TCR Lithia Kia of Anchorage 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical City Denton 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Gallery at Spokane 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Muscatine 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Altercare Post-Acute Rehabilitation Center, Inc 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin Foam/Sealed Air 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mactac Scranton 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bristol Farms - Corporate Office 120 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.