Home centers, building materials · Kansas

Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc.

Independence, KS · ~33 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc. runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade D.

Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc.: 4.8 TCR = 141% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc. safety composite

Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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

Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc.: 2.9 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc.'s TCR rose 3.1 from 2.9 in 2019 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Independence, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 141% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #28/62
  • PHOTO 1546 LOWE S OF E. VI…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1546 LOWE S OF E. VIRGINIA BEACH VA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc. averages 4.8 TCR (141% of the Home centers, building materials BLS benchmark).

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

Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc. TCR series: 2019=2.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.4

Where Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc. falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 62 Home centers, building materia employers in Kansas.

Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc. (33 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc.
Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc. (33 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Woods Lumber of Independence, KS Inc. has fewer employees than the Home centers, building materials median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 6.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 6.1 3.0 2 0 0
2022 3.1 0.0 0 1 0
2021 10.7 3.6 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · KS · Independence

6,309 Home centers, building materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 27 employers in Independence, KS · 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 1546 LOWE S OF E. VIRGINIA BEACH VA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2942 LOWE S OF ELKHART IN 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0120 LOWE S OF BELLE VERNON PA. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-2728 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunbelt Feed Yard 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Royal Beef Feed Yard 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linn Willow Creek Dairy LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Upland Pork LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Independence 520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Standard Motor Products 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2893 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2893 257 FTE
NAT-TCR Switch-N-Go, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Churchview Supportive Living 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Swanillon, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR West Side Tractor Sales - Lafayette 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 826 Church Street Morrisville NC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pridco Las Flores Ind Park Rio Grande PR 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5722 W. Jefferson Boulevard 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maysville Feedmill 33 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.