Barrel heading and staves manufacturing · Missouri

Salem Wood Products

Salem, MO · ~73 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Salem Wood Products runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Barrel heading and staves manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Salem Wood Products: 3.6 TCR = 109% of Barrel heading and staves manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Salem Wood Products safety composite

Salem Wood Products scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.7

2016→2024

Salem Wood Products injury rate improved

Salem Wood Products's TCR fell 4.7 from 7.0 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.0 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Salem, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 109% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #11/27
  • PHOTO UN1F1ED2WO
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UN1F1ED2WO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Salem Wood Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Salem Wood Products averages 3.6 TCR (109% of the Barrel heading and staves manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Salem Wood Products TCR series: 2016=7 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Salem Wood Products falls in its industry

952 Barrel heading and staves manu establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 27 Barrel heading and staves manu employers in Missouri.

Salem Wood Products (73 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Salem Wood Products
Salem Wood Products (73 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Salem Wood Products has more employees than the Barrel heading and staves manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2023 2.9 2.0 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.5 1.5 3 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2018 5.6 1.4 2 2 0
2017 4.4 0.0 3 0 0
2016 7.0 4.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · MO · Salem

952 Barrel heading and staves manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 12 employers in Salem, MO · 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 UN1F1ED2WO 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.S. Pallet Co. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Recycled Hammond (USUC) 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WIC Austin Hutto Branch 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Platte-Clay Electric Co-op 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interface Construction Corp 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield Striping & Sealing 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Foods Salem 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8U - Salem 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 27 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27 188 FTE
NAT-TCR Affinity Displays and Expositions Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mondovi 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tyler 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Rite Store 339 Hyde Park 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Warsaw Facility 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Valley Power 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nampa ID 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Cooling Tower Services, Inc 73 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.