Sawmills · Michigan

Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber

Comins, MI · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber runs at 725% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber: 23.9 TCR = 725% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber safety composite

Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber: 23.7 → 32.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 32.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2018

Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber's TCR rose 9.1 from 23.7 in 2016 to 32.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Comins, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.9 · 725% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #26/26
  • PHOTO Dickenson Enterprise…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dickenson Enterprises LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber averages 23.9 TCR (725% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber TCR series: 2016=23.7 · 2017=15.2 · 2018=32.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber 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 Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 26 Sawmills employers in Michigan.

Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber (58 employees, TCR 23.9) 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 051015202530 Average employees Total Case Rate Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber
Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber (58 employees, TCR 23.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Michigan Lumber & Wood Fiber 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
2018 32.8 8.7 15 0 0
2017 15.2 10.9 7 0 0
2016 23.7 14.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · MI · Comins

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan 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 Dickenson Enterprises LLC 24.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cass Forest Products Sawmill 23.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brown-Forman Cooperage- Spencer Mill 23.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR N.C. Hunt Inc- Jefferson 24.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (WI) 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE NTBS Services 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Rouge Power Plant 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cherryland Electric Cooperative 58 FTE
NAT-TCR Summerfield Management, LLC 23.9 TCR
NAT-TCR City of El Monte 23.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Carriage Hill Health & Rehab Center 23.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SDIX-Maine 23.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 659 Monroe ROC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE AC Corporation - Winston-Salem 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Save - Eleele 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa 58 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: 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.