Applicators, wood, manufacturing · Indiana

Universal Forest Products

Granger, IN · ~205 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Universal Forest Products runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
56
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Universal Forest Products's OSHA Total Case Rate of 2.9 to the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (87% of benchmark) across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Universal Forest Products's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

012345 201620172018201920202021202220232024 1.93.3 Industry benchmarkUniversal Forest Products TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 321999.

Where Universal Forest Products falls in its industry

440 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 20 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in Indiana.

Trend analysis for Universal Forest Products

Between 2016 and 2024, Universal Forest Products's Total Case Rate worsened from 1.0 to 1.9 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 101% increase across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2016, at a TCR of 1.0, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 4.3, a spread of 3.3 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 9 reporting years, Universal Forest Products recorded 56 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 56 injuries shown on this page for Universal Forest Products are sourced from its own 9 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 321999 - Applicators, wood, manufacturing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

3 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 310,494 hours worked = 1.93 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Universal Forest Products (this establishment) 2.86 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg
Applicators, wood, manufacturing industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 321999
Indiana state avg (all industries) 4.53 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Universal Forest Products to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2023 4.1 4.1 7 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 5 0 0
2021 3.0 2.2 8 0 0
2020 4.1 2.7 9 0 0
2019 4.3 1.3 10 0 0
2018 1.8 0.5 4 0 0
2017 3.3 1.6 8 0 0
2016 1.0 0.0 2 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Universal Forest Products's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Applicators, wood, manufacturing peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 87% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing benchmark, Universal Forest Products reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Applicators, wood, manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Universal Forest Products's safety grade?
Universal Forest Products has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.9 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Applicators, wood, manufacturing.
How many injuries has Universal Forest Products reported?
Universal Forest Products has reported 56 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 9 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.