Sawmills · Alabama

West Fraser, Inc.

Opelika, AL · ~133 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Fraser, Inc. runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade A.

West Fraser, Inc.: 1.5 TCR = 44% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Fraser, Inc. safety composite

West Fraser, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 52%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Rising injury rate

West Fraser, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2024

West Fraser, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Opelika, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 44% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #12/56
  • PHOTO Raymond Lumber
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Raymond Lumber (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Fraser, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Fraser, Inc. averages 1.5 TCR (44% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

West Fraser, Inc. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where West Fraser, Inc. falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 56 Sawmills employers in Alabama.

West Fraser, Inc. (133 employees, TCR 1.5) 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, Inc.
West Fraser, Inc. (133 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

West Fraser, Inc. has more employees than the Sawmills 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 2.0 2.0 3 0 0
2023 3.2 2.6 5 0 0
2022 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · AL · Opelika

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 87 employers in Opelika, AL · 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 Raymond Lumber 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Fraser 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fulton Sawmill 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Fraser - Seaboard 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rabren General Contractors, LP 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Fraser Lumber Mill 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hope Hull 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayco Industries - Birmingham Main Facility 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6095 849 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6095 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mando America Corporation 493 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanwha Advanced Materials America LLC. Opelika 470 FTE
NAT-TCR Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Goldhorn Electrical Construction, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Defiance Clinic 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Management Office 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corp-B5510-Dsg Corporate 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethlehem, PA - Hanoverville 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville, FL - 723 Scotia Rd 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE M & C Concrete Company INC 133 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, 2021. 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.