Sawmills · Tennessee

Whitson Lumber Company

Clarksville, TN · ~28 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whitson Lumber Company runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sawmills workplace, earning a grade D.

Whitson Lumber Company: 6.2 TCR = 187% of Sawmills BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitson Lumber Company safety composite

Whitson Lumber Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.0

2018→2023

Whitson Lumber Company injury rate improved

Whitson Lumber Company's TCR fell 11.0 from 11.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.0 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Clarksville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 187% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/25
  • PHOTO Timberland Forest Pr…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Timberland Forest Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whitson Lumber Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whitson Lumber Company averages 6.2 TCR (187% of the Sawmills BLS benchmark).

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

Whitson Lumber Company TCR series: 2018=11 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Whitson Lumber Company falls in its industry

905 Sawmills establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 25 Sawmills employers in Tennessee.

Whitson Lumber Company (28 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Whitson Lumber Company
Whitson Lumber Company (28 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Whitson Lumber Company has fewer employees than the Sawmills median and a higher 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2021 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2020 9.7 6.5 3 0 0
2019 6.2 0.0 2 0 0
2018 11.0 11.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · TN · Clarksville

905 Sawmills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 213 employers in Clarksville, TN · 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 Timberland Forest Products 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pyramid Mountain Lumber, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tarter Gate Wood Products 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baillie Lumber Smyrna , NY 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE K&K Tobacco Farms LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tosh Pork Martin 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Livingston 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lashlee-Rich, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Clarksville, TN-USA 1,713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : MFG-Clarksville, TN-USA 1,701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clarksville Holdings, LLC d/b/a Gateway Medical Center 1,134 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montgomery County Government 1,029 FTE
NAT-TCR Shepherd of the Hills Development, LLC 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 27106 Independence Ave 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Herberger Construction Company, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR W3 Reprocessing Center 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roth Pump 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martin Svensson Home LLC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manhattan 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE OnPoint Digital Solutions, LLC 28 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.