Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts · North Carolina

West Fraser, Armour

Riegelwood, NC · ~155 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Fraser, Armour runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts workplace, earning a grade B.

West Fraser, Armour: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Fraser, Armour safety composite

West Fraser, Armour scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.5

2022→2024

West Fraser, Armour injury rate improved

West Fraser, Armour's TCR fell 2.5 from 4.1 in 2022 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.1 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Riegelwood, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #16/34
  • PHOTO Turman Lumber Compan…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Turman Lumber Company Salem (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Fraser, Armour in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Fraser, Armour averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts BLS benchmark).

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

West Fraser, Armour TCR series: 2022=4.1 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where West Fraser, Armour falls in its industry

905 Boards, wood, made from logs o establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 34 Boards, wood, made from logs o employers in North Carolina.

West Fraser, Armour (155 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 West Fraser, Armour
West Fraser, Armour (155 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

West Fraser, Armour has more employees than the Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts median and a lower 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
2024 1.6 1.1 3 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 3 0 0
2022 4.1 2.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · NC · Riegelwood

905 Boards, wood, made from logs or bolts employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Riegelwood, NC · 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 Turman Lumber Company Salem 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson Hardwood 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Fraser Augusta Lumber Mill 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RAYMOND 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE BU 3433 - I-440 Beltline Widen-Wake Cnty 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Downlite 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverlake Facility 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfspeed, Siler City, NC 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riegelwood Mill 619 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Fraser - Armour Mill 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munn-Xpress 55 FTE
NAT-TCR City of White Plains- DPW Building Maintenance 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gorman-Lavelle Corporation 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Paper Converting Machine Company Ashland/Cormier 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hatch Stamping Company - Vaughn 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Skidmore Sales & Distributing 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apple Rubber Products 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Engineering Metalworks 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE C & L Refrigeration Corp 155 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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