Retail - building materials · Minnesota

Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck

Blackduck, MN · ~19 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Retail - building materials workplace, earning a grade A.

Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck: 1.6 TCR = 46% of Retail - building materials BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck safety composite

Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% 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

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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%).

Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck held a steady TCR band

Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Blackduck, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/109
  • PHOTO 1304 WASILLA
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1304 WASILLA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck averages 1.6 TCR (46% of the Retail - building materials BLS benchmark).

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

Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck falls in its industry

6,309 Retail - building materials establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 109 Retail - building materials employers in Minnesota.

Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck (19 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck
Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck (19 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Northwoods Lumber Company - Blackduck has fewer employees than the Retail - building materials median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.5 7.5 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · MN · Blackduck

6,309 Retail - building materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Blackduck, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 1304 WASILLA 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0651 LOWE S OF BAYBROOK TX 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1556 LOWE S OF HEMET CA 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2898 LOWE S OF ALAMO RANCH TX 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabin Breeding 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Tilney MN 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danvers 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon, MN 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unique Wholesale Distributors - MN Blackduck 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISD #32 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blackduck Leevers Foods 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR BI-County Community Action Program, INC Black Duck head start 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Salt Lake City Terminal 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pilot Plant 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Master Interiors, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR UC Santa Barbara 1.6 TCR

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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.