Fencing, wood, merchant wholesalers · Virginia

Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista

Buena Vista, VA · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fencing, wood, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista: 1.1 TCR = 51% of Fencing, wood, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista safety composite

Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista held a steady TCR band

Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Buena Vista, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.1 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/48
  • PHOTO Baltimore - BMD
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baltimore - BMD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista averages 1.1 TCR (51% of the Fencing, wood, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista falls in its industry

1,225 Fencing, wood, merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 48 Fencing, wood, merchant wholes employers in Virginia.

Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista (46 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 020406080100120 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista
Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista (46 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Northwest Hardwoods Buena Vista has more employees than the Fencing, wood, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 3.4 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · VA · Buena Vista

1,225 Fencing, wood, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 19 employers in Buena Vista, VA · 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 Baltimore - BMD 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indianapolis 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawrenceville Masonite 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Hill Plywood-Knoxville 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE BRUNSWICK COUNTY POWER STATION 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE 202-NiSource-Staunton VA 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jacobs BIA-Dulles Rail-VA 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huang's Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modine Manufacturing Company - Buena Vista 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munters Corporation, Buena Vista, VA 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Everbrite, LLC 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Everbrite LLC - Buena Vista 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Miwon Specialty Chemicals USA 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NGSP-CA66 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Jazz Admin 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ram Custom Services 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ivex Specialty Paper LLC 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rose Fabricating & Industrial Solutions, LLC 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michelman Steel Enterprises. LLC 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arbor Landing at Hampstead 46 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. 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.