Door frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing · Indiana

U.S. Lumber - Chicago

Gary, IN · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

U.S. Lumber - Chicago runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Door frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

U.S. Lumber - Chicago: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Door frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

U.S. Lumber - Chicago safety composite

U.S. Lumber - Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

U.S. Lumber - Chicago: 0.0 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

U.S. Lumber - Chicago's TCR rose 8.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 8.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321911 · Gary, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Central Woodwork
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Woodwork (0.0 TCR gap)

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U.S. Lumber - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows U.S. Lumber - Chicago averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Door frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

U.S. Lumber - Chicago TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 3.3

Where U.S. Lumber - Chicago falls in its industry

452 Door frames and sash, wood and establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

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 9 Door frames and sash, wood and employers in Indiana.

U.S. Lumber - Chicago (30 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate U.S. Lumber - Chicago
U.S. Lumber - Chicago (30 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 5.0

U.S. Lumber - Chicago has fewer employees than the Door frames and sash, wood and covered w median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 8.1 8.1 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321911 · IN · Gary

452 Door frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 107 employers in Gary, IN · 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 Central Woodwork 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millwork Brands Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hull Supply Company, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baird Brothers Saw Mill Inc. 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Noblesville Generating Station 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawrenceburg Power, LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE HQ 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steuben County REMC 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR USS Gary Works - Plant 4,744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gary Works 3,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRNI Holdings, LLC 1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DIN2 569 FTE
NAT-TCR Fox Factory 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Industries 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Vadan - Danville 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oahu 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ocean State Power 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Residence Inn East Rutherford 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springhill Suites Louisville Airport 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Craftweld Fabrication Co. Inc. 30 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. 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.