Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Ohio

Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc.

Orrville, OH · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc. runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc.: 6.4 TCR = 194% of Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc. safety composite

Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−4.4

2021→2022

Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc. injury rate improved

Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.4 from 8.6 in 2021 to 4.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.6 · 2022=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Orrville, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 194% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #46/79
  • PHOTO Kamps Pallets Orlando
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kamps Pallets Orlando (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc. averages 6.4 TCR (194% of the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc. TCR series: 2021=8.6 · 2022=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc. falls in its industry

952 Pallets, wood or wood and meta establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 79 Pallets, wood or wood and meta employers in Ohio.

Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc. (64 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc.
Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc. (64 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Southwood Lumber & Pallet, Inc. has more employees than the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combinat median and a higher 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
2022 4.2 2.8 3 0 0
2021 8.6 5.7 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · OH · Orrville

952 Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 58 employers in Orrville, OH · 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 Kamps Pallets Orlando 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kamps Grand Rapids 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millwood Inc. - South River 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR O'Malley Timber Products 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wm. A. Natorp Company 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE TIMBUK FARMS INC 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE GreenTop Acres, LLC 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chillicothe Service Center 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR The J.M. Smucker Company Corporate Office 1,798 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Quality Castings Company 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR The JM Smucker Company Manufacturing Facility 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aultman Orrville 302 FTE
NAT-TCR Martins Food Markets # 6308 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Montelucia, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Al Fresco Landscaping inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Labelworx Acquisition Company LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Starn Tool & Manufacturing Company 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillcrest Transportation, Inc. 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lotz Trucking Inc 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 64 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: 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.