Sawmills · Kentucky

Premium Hardwoods, Inc.

Central City, KY · ~47 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Premium Hardwoods, Inc. runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade C.

Premium Hardwoods, Inc.: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Premium Hardwoods, Inc. safety composite

Premium Hardwoods, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−6.8

2021→2024

Premium Hardwoods, Inc. injury rate improved

Premium Hardwoods, Inc.'s TCR fell 6.8 from 10.5 in 2021 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=10.5 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Central City, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #9/28
  • PHOTO Chester
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chester (0.0 TCR gap)

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Premium Hardwoods, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Premium Hardwoods, Inc. averages 3.7 TCR (112% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Premium Hardwoods, Inc. TCR series: 2021=10.5 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Premium Hardwoods, Inc. falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 28 Sawmills employers in Kentucky.

Premium Hardwoods, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Premium Hardwoods, Inc.
Premium Hardwoods, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Premium Hardwoods, Inc. has fewer employees than the Sawmills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.6 0.4 3 0 0
2021 10.5 8.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · KY · Central City

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 16 employers in Central City, KY · 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 Chester 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Putney Paper 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Forest Products US LLC Arlington Division 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLW Livingston 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Russellville 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cane Run 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glasgow Electric Plant Board 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miranda Construction, LLC 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR 294 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR LHS/Services Central City 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 294 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sparks Nursing Center, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-TCR The Botanist, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EnerSys Advanced Systems Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pet Factory, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 08004-08-08-MEDFORD 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Admiral Valve LLC dba CPV Manufacturing 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ledegar Roofing Company Inc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Team Logistics 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ultra Precision, Inc. 47 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.