Sawmills · Virginia

Turman Lumber- Salem Frame

Salem, VA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Turman Lumber- Salem Frame runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade D.

Turman Lumber- Salem Frame: 5.9 TCR = 180% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Turman Lumber- Salem Frame safety composite

Turman Lumber- Salem Frame scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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)
D 5.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

Turman Lumber- Salem Frame: 4.9 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2021

Turman Lumber- Salem Frame's TCR rose 2.1 from 4.9 in 2020 to 7.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Salem, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 180% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #20/35
  • PHOTO Abbeville Fiber, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Abbeville Fiber, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Turman Lumber- Salem Frame in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Turman Lumber- Salem Frame averages 5.9 TCR (180% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Turman Lumber- Salem Frame TCR series: 2020=4.9 · 2021=7 · BLS 3.3

Where Turman Lumber- Salem Frame falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 35 Sawmills employers in Virginia.

Turman Lumber- Salem Frame (35 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 Turman Lumber- Salem Frame
Turman Lumber- Salem Frame (35 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Turman Lumber- Salem Frame has fewer 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
2021 7.0 4.7 2 1 1
2020 4.9 4.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · VA · Salem

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 134 employers in Salem, VA · 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 Abbeville Fiber, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitehouse Lumber Mill 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bibb Co. Properties Tuscumbia 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA517 Rome Lumber 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE R S Coleman Lumber Company Inc 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clinch River 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fieldale Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shenandoah Division 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carter Machinery Company, Inc. 2,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lewis Gale Medical Center 1,159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Virginia, LLC 770 FTE
CITY-NEAR LewisGale Medical Center 690 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Club Hill 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoprite of Lacey 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Americold Texarkana, AR 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jupiter Aluminum Corporation 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gilley Wood, Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walman Optical- Toledo 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE AH4R - Tampa 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE AH4R - Jacksonville 35 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. 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.