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

West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill

Name: West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Riegelwood, NC · ~172 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Beams, wood, made from logs or bolts workplace, earning a grade B.

West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Beams, wood, made from logs or bolts BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill safety composite

West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill held a steady TCR band

West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.9 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2018=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

DART 1.0 DART
RANK #8/34
PHOTO Gutchess Lumber Comp…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gutchess Lumber Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Beams, wood, made from logs or bolts BLS benchmark).

West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2018=2 · BLS 3.3

Where West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill falls in its industry

905 Beams, wood, made from logs or establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 34 Beams, wood, made from logs or employers in North Carolina.

West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill (172 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill has more employees than the Beams, 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
2018	2.0	1.0	3	1	0
2016	1.9	0.9	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · NC · Riegelwood

905 Beams, 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Gutchess Lumber Company	CORTLAND, NY	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FL170 Palatka Chipmill	PALATKA, FL	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Terre Haute Hardwoods, LLC, dba/ Kirkham Hardwoods	TERRE HAUTE, IN	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mobile, Alabama Sawmill	MOBILE, AL	1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Little Rock Operations Center	CHARLOTTE	172 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Teijin Automotive Technologies North Carolina Composites, LLC	LENOIR	172 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Budd Group Production	WINSTON-SALEM	172 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3	HICKORY	172 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Riegelwood Mill	Riegelwood	619 FTE
CITY-NEAR	West Fraser - Armour Mill	Riegelwood	170 FTE
CITY-NEAR	West Fraser, Armour	Riegelwood	155 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Munn-Xpress	Riegelwood	55 FTE
NAT-TCR	MidCo Inc	Burr Ridge, IL	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Stephanie Tubbs Jones Health Center	East Cleveland, OH	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cincinnati One Hour Heating and Air	Cincinnati, OH	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ardagh Metal Packaging USA, Inc. - Bloomsburg	Bloomsburg, PA	1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Wayne Medical Center	Waynesboro, TN	172 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Renishaw Inc	West Dundee, IL	172 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Columbus Museum of Art	Columbus, OH	172 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Transcontinental Robbie	Lenexa, KS	172 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: 2018, 2016. 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.