Lumber retailing yards · Maine

Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville

Name: Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Waterville, ME · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 11.8
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville runs at 346% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lumber retailing yards workplace, earning a grade F.

Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville: 11.8 TCR = 346% of Lumber retailing yards BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville safety composite

Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 11.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville: 7.1 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville's TCR rose 6.7 from 7.1 in 2022 to 13.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Waterville, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.8 · 346% of ind

DART 9.2 DART
RANK #17/21
PHOTO McCoys Building Supp…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McCoys Building Supply-Hobbs (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville averages 11.8 TCR (346% of the Lumber retailing yards BLS benchmark).

Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville TCR series: 2022=7.1 · 2023=14.4 · 2024=13.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville falls in its industry

1,643 Lumber retailing yards establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 21 Lumber retailing yards employers in Maine.

Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville (25 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Ware Butler Building Supply - Waterville has fewer employees than the Lumber retailing yards 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
2024	13.8	9.2	3
2023	14.4	14.4	3
2022	7.1	7.1	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · ME · Waterville

1,643 Lumber retailing yards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 54 employers in Waterville, ME · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	McCoys Building Supply-Hobbs	HOBBS, NM	11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	L&W Supply Co Inc, 7178 Fort Worth, TX	FORT WORTH, TX	11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	McCoys Building Supply- Manchaca	AUSTIN, TX	11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	024 Pasco	PASCO, WA	11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Drew Corporation, Inc.	LOVELL	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ocean Renewable Power Company	PORTLAND	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ME Trucking	VARIOUS	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Small Tools	PITTSFIELD	25 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Colby College	Waterville	1,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Huhtamaki Waterville	Waterville	542 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MaineGeneral Medical Center - Thayer Campus	Waterville	484 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 2013	Waterville	399 FTE
NAT-TCR	AHG Apple Valley Medical Center	Apple Valley, MN	11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Applequist Mfg, Inc.	Smith Center, KS	11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Valley Pallet - Salinas	Salinas, CA	11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Central Valley Meat Company	Hanford, CA	11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bay City Recreation Area - Dnr	Bay City, MI	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Coloma Garage - Mdot	Coloma, MI	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hrt Mtague Trl Slvr Lk Pk -Dnr	Mears, MI	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sunset Beach 10	Huntington Beach, CA	25 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.