Boards, wood, resawing purchased lumber · Indiana

Northwest Hardwoods Inc.

Elkhart, IN · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Hardwoods Inc. runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Boards, wood, resawing purchased lumber workplace, earning a grade A.

Northwest Hardwoods Inc.: 1.4 TCR = 41% of Boards, wood, resawing purchased lumber BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Hardwoods Inc. safety composite

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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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%).

Northwest Hardwoods Inc. held a steady TCR band

Northwest Hardwoods Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321912 · Elkhart, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO NWH, Ridgway
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NWH, Ridgway (0.1 TCR gap)

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Northwest Hardwoods Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Hardwoods Inc. averages 1.4 TCR (41% of the Boards, wood, resawing purchased lumber BLS benchmark).

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

Northwest Hardwoods Inc. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Northwest Hardwoods Inc. falls in its industry

178 Boards, wood, resawing purchas establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Boards, wood, resawing purchas employers in Indiana.

Northwest Hardwoods Inc. (20 employees, TCR 1.4) 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.
Northwest Hardwoods Inc. (20 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Northwest Hardwoods Inc. has fewer employees than the Boards, wood, resawing 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321912 · IN · Elkhart

178 Boards, wood, resawing purchased lumber employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, IN · 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 NWH, Ridgway 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hochstetler Wood 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR F.F.M., Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor-Made Lumber Reman 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoosierland Pork 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Family Farm, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corydon Growout 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE HVA P&C Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR Procter and Gamble Mehoopany 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Location 50002 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stonebridge Marble Hill 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Integrity Pinebrook, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Texas 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southeast Texas 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunkin Donuts 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of White Plains- DPW Building Maintenance 20 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. 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.