Stud mills · Montana

Sun Mountain Lumber Inc

Deer Lodge, MT · ~184 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sun Mountain Lumber Inc runs at 430% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Stud mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Sun Mountain Lumber Inc: 14.2 TCR = 430% of Stud mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sun Mountain Lumber Inc safety composite

Sun Mountain Lumber Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sun Mountain Lumber Inc: 10.2 → 20.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 20.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2024

Sun Mountain Lumber Inc's TCR rose 10.3 from 10.2 in 2018 to 20.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Deer Lodge, MT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.2 · 430% of ind

  • DART 16.9 DART
  • RANK #11/13
  • PHOTO Great Western Lumber…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 104 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Western Lumber Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sun Mountain Lumber Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sun Mountain Lumber Inc averages 14.2 TCR (430% of the Stud mills BLS benchmark).

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

Sun Mountain Lumber Inc TCR series: 2018=10.2 · 2019=15 · 2023=11 · 2024=20.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Sun Mountain Lumber Inc falls in its industry

905 Stud mills establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 13 Stud mills employers in Montana.

Sun Mountain Lumber Inc (184 employees, TCR 14.2) 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 Sun Mountain Lumber Inc
Sun Mountain Lumber Inc (184 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Sun Mountain Lumber Inc has more employees than the Stud mills 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 20.5 16.9 46 0 0
2023 11.0 7.9 18 0 0
2019 15.0 9.6 25 0 0
2018 10.2 10.2 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · MT · Deer Lodge

905 Stud mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 8 employers in Deer Lodge, MT · 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 Great Western Lumber Company 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danzer Lumber North America Shade Gap 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AJD Forest Products 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kennebec Lumber Company - Wentworth 14.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Swank Enterprises 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Partners In Home Care, Inc 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mark Rite Lines 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Torgerson's-Great Falls 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Powell County Memorial Hospital Association, Inc. DBA Deer Lodge Medical Center 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Ivy at Deer Lodge, LLC 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6400-SWY-0030-0031-01158 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0030-0031-01158 FAC-01158-DEER LODGE-MT 52 FTE
NAT-TCR Shasta County Office of Education 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Byers Enterprises Inc. 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CKF Urbandale 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0560 Somerville 14.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Doncasters Southern Tool 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renascent Inc. 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preferred Electric Company Inc 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMD Corporation 184 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, 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.