Sawmills · Arkansas

West Fraser - Russellville Mill

Russellville, AR · ~143 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Fraser - Russellville Mill runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade D.

West Fraser - Russellville Mill: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Fraser - Russellville Mill safety composite

West Fraser - Russellville Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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 - Russellville Mill held a steady TCR band

West Fraser - Russellville Mill's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.5 in 2021 to 4.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.5 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Russellville, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #25/37
  • PHOTO Rosboro-Vaughn
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rosboro-Vaughn (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Fraser - Russellville Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Fraser - Russellville Mill averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

West Fraser - Russellville Mill TCR series: 2021=4.5 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where West Fraser - Russellville Mill falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 37 Sawmills employers in Arkansas.

West Fraser - Russellville Mill (143 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 - Russellville Mill
West Fraser - Russellville Mill (143 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

West Fraser - Russellville 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
2023 4.6 4.0 7 1 0
2022 3.1 1.2 4 1 0
2021 4.5 0.0 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · AR · Russellville

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 113 employers in Russellville, AR · 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 Rosboro-Vaughn 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hankins Lumber Co, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Fraser Joyce 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LCH 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE OCCDP NWA 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10596 Fayetteville 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE 025-00621 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2284 - Fort Smith 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Russellville,AR 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arkansas Nuclear One 1,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyler Road Plant 643 FTE
CITY-NEAR Transco Lines, Inc 586 FTE
NAT-TCR Rockford location 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR County Market #226 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR M&M Transport - Chambersburg Operations 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlisle Pa Plant 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sanoh-Archbold 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aavid Thermalloy 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shippers Warehouse-Jonesboro 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Max Grigsby Co., Inc. d.b.a. MGC, Inc. 143 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. 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.