Sawmill equipment manufacturing · Oregon

Sweed Machinery Inc

Gold Hill, OR · ~63 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sweed Machinery Inc runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawmill equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sweed Machinery Inc: 8.9 TCR = 270% of Sawmill equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sweed Machinery Inc safety composite

Sweed Machinery Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Sweed Machinery Inc: 10.7 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2024

Sweed Machinery Inc's TCR rose 0.4 from 10.7 in 2016 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333243 · Gold Hill, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 270% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Freres Engineered Wood
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Freres Engineered Wood (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sweed Machinery Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sweed Machinery Inc averages 8.9 TCR (270% of the Sawmill equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sweed Machinery Inc TCR series: 2016=10.7 · 2017=12.8 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=11.5 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Sweed Machinery Inc falls in its industry

137 Sawmill equipment manufacturin establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Sawmill equipment manufacturin employers in Oregon.

Sweed Machinery Inc (63 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sweed Machinery Inc
Sweed Machinery Inc (63 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sweed Machinery Inc has more employees than the Sawmill equipment manufacturing 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
2024 11.1 4.7 7 0 0
2023 9.2 3.1 6 0 0
2022 4.4 1.5 3 0 0
2021 11.5 7.7 6 0 0
2020 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2019 6.6 4.9 4 0 0
2018 9.5 7.6 5 0 0
2017 12.8 6.4 4 2 0
2016 10.7 8.5 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333243 · OR · Gold Hill

137 Sawmill equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 6 employers in Gold Hill, OR · 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 Freres Engineered Wood 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Factory 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coldwater Group, Inc 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cook's Saw MFG LLC 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Summit Reconstruction & Restoration 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Todd Construction, Inc. Main Office 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emerick Construction 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Texstar - Aurora 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brotherton Pipeline, Inc. 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR At Your Pace Online 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Del Rio Farms 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gold Hill Wastewater Treatment Plant 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Creter 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ardent Mills York 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie View Healthcare Center 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Euclid 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Current River Nursing Center 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Industry, Ca 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE L&L Site Services, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Valley Living and Rehabilitation 63 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.