Kiln drying lumber · Wisconsin

Superior Kilns

Mellen, WI · ~34 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Kilns runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Kiln drying lumber workplace, earning a grade D.

Superior Kilns: 4.0 TCR = 121% of Kiln drying lumber BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Kilns safety composite

Superior Kilns scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Superior Kilns: 0.0 → 15.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2024

Superior Kilns's TCR rose 15.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 15.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Mellen, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #7/30
  • PHOTO Manufacturing Plant
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Manufacturing Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Superior Kilns in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Kilns averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the Kiln drying lumber BLS benchmark).

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

Superior Kilns TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=3 · 2023=0 · 2024=15.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Superior Kilns falls in its industry

405 Kiln drying lumber establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 30 Kiln drying lumber employers in Wisconsin.

Superior Kilns (34 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Superior Kilns
Superior Kilns (34 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Superior Kilns has fewer employees than the Kiln drying lumber median and a lower 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
2024 15.2 6.1 5 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.4 3.7 2 0 0
2018 6.8 0.0 2 0 0
2017 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · WI · Mellen

405 Kiln drying lumber employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 5 employers in Mellen, WI · 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 Manufacturing Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Radford Cabinets, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Timber Products - Spectrum Division 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterling Site Access Solutions, LLC. (Lufkin) 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Drumlin Dairy, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merrillan East Coating 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayfront Steam Plant 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayfront Steam Plant-5D 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mellen 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Country Lumber CO., Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR School District of Mellen 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mellen Manor 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Dodge Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalyn Siebert Trailers 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilmington 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruppert Landscape - Mableton 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blasen & Blasen Lumber Corp. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scoular Hancock 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transystems LLC - Crookston Project 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Genesee Construction Service, Inc. 34 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.