Planing purchased lumber · Michigan

Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center

Byron Center, MI · ~57 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Planing purchased lumber workplace, earning a grade A.

Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center: 1.0 TCR = 29% of Planing purchased lumber BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center safety composite

Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−1.9

2016→2017

Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center injury rate improved

Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center's TCR fell 1.9 from 1.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321912 · Byron Center, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Front St. Reload
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Front St. Reload (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center averages 1.0 TCR (29% of the Planing purchased lumber BLS benchmark).

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

Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center falls in its industry

178 Planing purchased lumber establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Planing purchased lumber employers in Michigan.

Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center (57 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center
Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center (57 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Byron Center has more employees than the Planing purchased lumber median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321912 · MI · Byron Center

178 Planing purchased lumber employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 78 employers in Byron Center, MI · 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 Front St. Reload 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Hardwoods Marion 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alton 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor-Made Lumber Reman 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bloomingdale MI Facility 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville SC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dickinson Homes 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concraft Inc 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buist Electric 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lumbermen's Inc. Byron Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masterpiece Flower Company LLC 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Eerden Trucking 254 FTE
NAT-TCR Siemens Energy Inc. - Mount Vernon 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 48- Ladd (Cattani) 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Beaumont District Office EN4T 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Glasgow 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and r of Jefferson City LLC 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yokohama Industries Americas Inc. Division 5 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Charlotte PNC Amphitheate 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE H5 - Garden City 57 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.