Sawmills · Minnesota

Rajala Timber Co

Deer River, MN · ~31 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Rajala Timber Co runs at 540% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade F.

Rajala Timber Co: 17.8 TCR = 540% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rajala Timber Co safety composite

Rajala Timber Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

3/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Rajala Timber Co: 5.7 → 31.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 32.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Rajala Timber Co's TCR rose 25.6 from 5.7 in 2018 to 31.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Deer River, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 540% of ind

  • DART 15.7 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Binderholz Enfield LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Binderholz Enfield LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rajala Timber Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rajala Timber Co averages 17.8 TCR (540% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Rajala Timber Co TCR series: 2018=5.7 · 2019=3 · 2020=19.1 · 2021=15.4 · 2022=32.3 · 2024=31.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Rajala Timber Co falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

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 9 Sawmills employers in Minnesota.

Rajala Timber Co (31 employees, TCR 17.8) 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 Rajala Timber Co
Rajala Timber Co (31 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Rajala Timber Co has fewer employees than the Sawmills median and a higher 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 31.3 15.7 6 0 0
2022 32.3 12.1 8 0 0
2021 15.4 11.6 4 0 0
2020 19.1 12.8 6 0 0
2019 3.0 0.0 1 0 1
2018 5.7 2.8 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · MN · Deer River

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 12 employers in Deer River, MN · 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 Binderholz Enfield LLC 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BE Forest Products Inc 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meador Wood Products Inc. 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warm Springs 17.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE High Island Dairy 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Protein Sources, LLP 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Dog Gen Plant-UC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Plant 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essentia Deer River Hospital 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essentia Deer Healthcare Center 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISD 317 King Elementary School 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Elementary School 88 FTE
NAT-TCR Conco, Inc. 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospice of Warren County 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hopkins Center 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rack & Maintenance Source LLC 17.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Opco Inc, 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aspen Leaf Landscape Maintenance Inc 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rivera Equipment dba Valley Industrial Mechanical 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frankfort Purina Feed Mill 31 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.