Mulch merchant wholesalers · Washington

Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc

Longview, WA · ~125 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc runs at 576% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mulch merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc: 12.7 TCR = 576% of Mulch merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc safety composite

Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc: 11.0 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2021

Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc's TCR rose 2.8 from 11.0 in 2018 to 13.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Longview, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 576% of ind

  • DART 13.8 DART
  • RANK #34/35
  • PHOTO Bomgaars Supply,Inc.…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Worland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc averages 12.7 TCR (576% of the Mulch merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc TCR series: 2018=11 · 2020=13.2 · 2021=13.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc falls in its industry

1,202 Mulch merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 35 Mulch merchant wholesalers employers in Washington.

Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc (125 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc
Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc (125 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Swanson Bark & Wood Products, Inc has more employees than the Mulch merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 13.8 13.8 19 0 0
2020 13.2 10.1 17 0 0
2018 11.0 3.9 16 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · WA · Longview

1,202 Mulch merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 101 employers in Longview, WA · 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 Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Worland 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Lexington 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Falls Feed 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chico, CA 12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pacific Tech Construction, Inc 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haggard Electric Contracting 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE 229 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE F/V Island Enterprise 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR LCR Delaware Campus 1,550 FTE
CITY-NEAR JH Kelly, LLC. 1,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR JH Kelly All States 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4532 Longview Paper Mill 761 FTE
NAT-TCR Lazy Acres Encinitas 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Accent Food Services San Antonio 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Villas at St James 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Stief Concrte Work Inc. 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Construction Southwest of AZ, Inc. 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sherman and Reilly 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE CAST Transportation 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scudder Falls 125 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: 2021, 2020, 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.