Sawmills · Kentucky

Tarter Gate Wood Products

Dunnville, KY · ~88 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tarter Gate Wood Products runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade D.

Tarter Gate Wood Products: 6.2 TCR = 188% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tarter Gate Wood Products safety composite

Tarter Gate Wood Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Tarter Gate Wood Products: 6.3 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2022

Tarter Gate Wood Products's TCR rose 0.7 from 6.3 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Dunnville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 188% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #14/28
  • PHOTO Timberland Forest Pr…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Timberland Forest Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tarter Gate Wood Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tarter Gate Wood Products averages 6.2 TCR (188% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Tarter Gate Wood Products TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=7 · BLS 3.3

Where Tarter Gate Wood Products falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 28 Sawmills employers in Kentucky.

Tarter Gate Wood Products (88 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Tarter Gate Wood Products
Tarter Gate Wood Products (88 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Tarter Gate Wood Products has more employees than the Sawmills 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
2022 7.0 5.3 4 0 0
2021 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 7.8 3.9 6 0 0
2019 7.7 2.6 6 0 0
2018 6.5 6.5 6 0 0
2017 6.3 3.1 8 0 0
2016 6.3 3.2 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · KY · Dunnville

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 6 employers in Dunnville, KY · 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 Timberland Forest Products 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pyramid Mountain Lumber, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitson Lumber Company 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WW Wood, Inc. 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ranger Steel Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill's Electric, LLC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA KY Louisville Bluegrass 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ernie Davis & Sons Mechanical, Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR TARTER GATE 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR TARTER TUBE 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR TARTER LOGISTICS 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR TARTER TANK 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Y Foods, Inc. Naugatuck 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR General Warehousing and Storage 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HG391 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 3457-02 Springfield Masonic Community 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Botanical Designs, LLC Seattle 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Narrows Glen 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion Lumber Company 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legg Company Inc. 88 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, 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.