Lumber Mill · North Carolina

New Bern Lumber

Vanceboro, NC · ~94 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Bern Lumber runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lumber Mill workplace, earning a grade D.

New Bern Lumber: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Lumber Mill BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Bern Lumber safety composite

New Bern Lumber scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−4.1

2016→2020

New Bern Lumber injury rate improved

New Bern Lumber's TCR fell 4.1 from 6.0 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.0 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Vanceboro, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #21/34
  • PHOTO Spanish Trail Lumber
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spanish Trail Lumber (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Bern Lumber in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Bern Lumber averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Lumber Mill BLS benchmark).

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

New Bern Lumber TCR series: 2016=6 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where New Bern Lumber falls in its industry

905 Lumber Mill establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 34 Lumber Mill employers in North Carolina.

New Bern Lumber (94 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 New Bern Lumber
New Bern Lumber (94 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

New Bern Lumber has more employees than the Lumber Mill 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
2020 1.9 1.9 1 1 0
2019 4.5 0.9 5 0 0
2018 4.5 2.7 4 1 0
2017 8.1 4.8 9 1 0
2016 6.0 4.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · NC · Vanceboro

905 Lumber Mill employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 6 employers in Vanceboro, NC · 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 Spanish Trail Lumber 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Street Lumber 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Garden Sawmill 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burt Lumber 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pike Gas Services, LLC Florida Statewide Operations 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sharpe Brothers 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechworks - Corporate 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE TK Elevator Raleigh 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Bern Mill 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR International Paper - New Bern Mill 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Bern 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02108 - STORE # 2108 VANCEBORO 64 FTE
NAT-TCR Community Hab 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Navitor Midwest - 0026-MNNO2 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 236 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GSU:GS500 - GS500-GSU - Sacramento, CA 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 345 El Paso, Tx 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE 576 Edinburg, Tx 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE 746 Harwood Heights, Il 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1110 94 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.