Applicators, wood, manufacturing · West Virginia

Richwood Hardwood

Richwood, WV · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richwood Hardwood runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Richwood Hardwood: 4.8 TCR = 145% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richwood Hardwood safety composite

Richwood Hardwood scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−3.4

2016→2019

Richwood Hardwood injury rate improved

Richwood Hardwood's TCR fell 3.4 from 6.5 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2019=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Richwood, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #6/15
  • PHOTO Lignetics of Virginia
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lignetics of Virginia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richwood Hardwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richwood Hardwood averages 4.8 TCR (145% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Richwood Hardwood TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2019=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Richwood Hardwood falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 15 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in West Virginia.

Richwood Hardwood (39 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 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 Richwood Hardwood
Richwood Hardwood (39 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Richwood Hardwood has fewer employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing median and a higher 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
2019 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2016 6.5 2.6 3 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · WV · Richwood

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 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 Lignetics of Virginia 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duraflame East, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ConceptWorks Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Renewable Inc.Manchester 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milton Office and Service Center 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE MSC Construction, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE North American Services Group - Weirton 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kessel Lumber Products 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR LCH 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Atlantic Tool & Die SEVILLE 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Miraval Arizona (MV) 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sofco Erectors, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Pauls House and Health Care 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Foodliner-Lafayette 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quest Liner-Blue Grass 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenvil 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE iFLY Orlando 39 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: 2019, 2016. 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.