Knobs, wood, manufacturing · Maine

Wells Wood Turning & Finishing

Buckfield, ME · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wells Wood Turning & Finishing runs at 645% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Knobs, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Wells Wood Turning & Finishing: 21.3 TCR = 645% of Knobs, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wells Wood Turning & Finishing safety composite

Wells Wood Turning & Finishing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 20.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Wells Wood Turning & Finishing: 21.1 → 32.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 32.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2023

Wells Wood Turning & Finishing's TCR rose 11.4 from 21.1 in 2020 to 32.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Buckfield, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.3 · 645% of ind

  • DART 20.3 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO La Puerta
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: La Puerta (0.3 TCR gap)

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Wells Wood Turning & Finishing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wells Wood Turning & Finishing averages 21.3 TCR (645% of the Knobs, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wells Wood Turning & Finishing TCR series: 2020=21.1 · 2021=31.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=32.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Wells Wood Turning & Finishing falls in its industry

405 Knobs, wood, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 Knobs, wood, manufacturing employers in Maine.

Wells Wood Turning & Finishing (27 employees, TCR 21.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Wells Wood Turning & Finishing
Wells Wood Turning & Finishing (27 employees, TCR 21.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Wells Wood Turning & Finishing has fewer employees than the Knobs, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 32.5 20.3 7 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 31.6 14.0 9 0 0
2020 21.1 10.5 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · ME · Buckfield

405 Knobs, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 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 La Puerta 21.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peebles Pellet Mill 20.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR W. Chicago 23.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartzell Hardwoods Inc. - Kirksville 18.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Versant Power Illinois Ave 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE CMP - Bridgton Service Building 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE JALBEAR BROTHERS POWERLINE CONSTRUCTION 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE HAMPDEN BRIDGES 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR 46 John Ellingwood Rd 32 FTE
NAT-TCR Urban Construction Company 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0019-0018-03529 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Aspire Physical Recovery Center at Cahaba River, LLC 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Building Value 21.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hansen's Moving & Storage, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE R Miller Construction 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE *EHN Physicians Elkins Park 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilkins Rebuilders 27 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: 2023, 2022, 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.