Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Norbord Alabama

Lanett, AL · ~110 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Norbord Alabama runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Norbord Alabama: 0.9 TCR = 40% of Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norbord Alabama safety composite

Norbord Alabama scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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%).

Norbord Alabama held a steady TCR band

Norbord Alabama's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2.0 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423990 · Lanett, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO G G Marck & Associates
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: G G Marck & Associates (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norbord Alabama in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norbord Alabama averages 0.9 TCR (40% of the Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Norbord Alabama TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Norbord Alabama falls in its industry

322 Wood products (e.g., chips, po establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Wood products (e.g., chips, po employers in Alabama.

Norbord Alabama (110 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Norbord Alabama
Norbord Alabama (110 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Norbord Alabama has more employees than the Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2021 1.4 0.0 2 0 1
2019 2.0 1.3 3 0 0
2018 1.2 0.6 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423990 · AL · Lanett

322 Wood products (e.g., chips, posts, shavings, ties) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 9 employers in Lanett, AL · 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 G G Marck & Associates 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Traffic Safety Service LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 010-NBH-CORPORATE 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caspari, Inc. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Millport 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Brothers Lumber Co., Inc. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastipak- McCalla 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE HarbisonWalker International 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6502 Lanett AL Manufacturing 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lanett 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knauf Insulation Plant 2 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR 011-00310 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Glendale Galleria 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR L3 Technologies - Greenville 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Terry Building Co., Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Experitec Inc. Chesterfield 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE LaJoy Group, Livonia 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE In-N-Out Burger Lathrop Meat Plant 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Park Market of Farmington, LLC 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garvey Corporation 110 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 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.