Sawmills · Texas

West Fraser New Boston Mill

New Boston, TX · ~161 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Fraser New Boston Mill runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade A.

West Fraser New Boston Mill: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Fraser New Boston Mill safety composite

West Fraser New Boston Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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 New Boston Mill: 0.5 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

West Fraser New Boston Mill's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.5 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · New Boston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #6/38
  • PHOTO Winston Hardwood
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Winston Hardwood (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Fraser New Boston Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Fraser New Boston Mill averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

West Fraser New Boston Mill TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where West Fraser New Boston Mill falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 38 Sawmills employers in Texas.

West Fraser New Boston Mill (161 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 New Boston Mill
West Fraser New Boston Mill (161 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

West Fraser New Boston Mill 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 3.1 1.6 6 0 0
2023 1.5 0.5 2 1 0
2022 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2020 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.5 1.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.1 1.5 4 2 0
2016 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · TX · New Boston

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 11 employers in New Boston, TX · 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 Winston Hardwood 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dierks Lumber 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bid Group Construction 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rex Lumber, Graceville LLC 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wildcat Oil Tools 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Venegas Engineering Management & Construction, Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aries Buildings Systems 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE TransCore - T0574 - Houston CSC 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR 181 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 181 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR NB-TX-NEW BOSTON 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR 544-NB-TX-NEW BOSTON 80 FTE
NAT-TCR Pyramid Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fives Cincinnati 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Pediatric Group - Lake Ridge 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Princeton 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE J & M Manufacturing Co., Inc. 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE High-Day, Inc. 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Meadows of Frederick 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pitt Ohio - West Middlesex 161 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.