Building materials supply dealers · Michigan

West Michigan Lumber

Byron Center, MI · ~57 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Michigan Lumber runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Building materials supply dealers workplace, earning a grade C.

West Michigan Lumber: 3.5 TCR = 102% of Building materials supply dealers BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Michigan Lumber safety composite

West Michigan Lumber scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 Michigan Lumber: 2.1 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2022

West Michigan Lumber's TCR rose 2.6 from 2.1 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Byron Center, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 102% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #21/54
  • PHOTO Industrial & Wholesa…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Industrial & Wholesale Lumber, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Michigan Lumber in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Michigan Lumber averages 3.5 TCR (102% of the Building materials supply dealers BLS benchmark).

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

West Michigan Lumber TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=6 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=4.8 · BLS 3.4

Where West Michigan Lumber falls in its industry

1,643 Building materials supply deal establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 54 Building materials supply deal employers in Michigan.

West Michigan Lumber (57 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate West Michigan Lumber
West Michigan Lumber (57 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

West Michigan Lumber has more employees than the Building materials supply dealers 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
2022 4.8 3.2 3 0 0
2021 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 1 1 0
2019 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2017 6.0 0.0 3 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · MI · Byron Center

1,643 Building materials supply dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 78 employers in Byron Center, MI · 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 Industrial & Wholesale Lumber, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Building Center - Boone 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Coast Colorado Spring 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR IL026A 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bloomingdale MI Facility 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville SC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dickinson Homes 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concraft Inc 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buist Electric 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lumbermen's Inc. Byron Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masterpiece Flower Company LLC 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Eerden Trucking 254 FTE
NAT-TCR HDS-Phoenix 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6925-GUM 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Audubon Aquarium of the Americas 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 9277-210 Flagg Ranch 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Recreation & Parks 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (INDA-6384) 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hussey Copper FAB Plant 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gilman Park Assisted Living 57 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 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.