Sawmills · Tennessee

Middleton Lumber Company, LLC

Puryear, TN · ~33 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Middleton Lumber Company, LLC runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade B.

Middleton Lumber Company, LLC: 2.6 TCR = 79% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Middleton Lumber Company, LLC safety composite

Middleton Lumber Company, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.0

2016→2024

Middleton Lumber Company, LLC injury rate improved

Middleton Lumber Company, LLC's TCR fell 6.0 from 6.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Puryear, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/25
  • PHOTO Fiber Processing plant
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fiber Processing plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Middleton Lumber Company, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Middleton Lumber Company, LLC averages 2.6 TCR (79% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Middleton Lumber Company, LLC TCR series: 2016=6 · 2017=0 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=3 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Middleton Lumber Company, LLC falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 25 Sawmills employers in Tennessee.

Middleton Lumber Company, LLC (33 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Middleton Lumber Company, LLC
Middleton Lumber Company, LLC (33 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Middleton Lumber Company, LLC has fewer employees than the Sawmills median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.7 0.0 0 1 0
2020 3.1 0.0 0 1 0
2019 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 5.8 0.0 0 2 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.0 0.0 0 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · TN · Puryear

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee 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 Fiber Processing plant 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dodson Lumber 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Builders Supply - Clermont Lumber 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan Lumber Co., Inc. 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hamilton County WWTA (Water & Wastewater Treatment Authority) 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE JC Curtis Construction Co., LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE TDH Inc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORION 33 FTE
NAT-TCR US Ecology Atlanta 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR BPD 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Reliable Automatic Sprinkler - South Carolina 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Advantage Tank Lines 20021 Detroit 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Triad EPS Plant 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Library 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill CFL - Palm Bay 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill CFL - Longwood 33 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, 2021, 2020, 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.