Industry profile · NAICS 321113

Sawmills

Workplace injury rates across 909 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

909
Employers
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
BLS benchmark
20,024
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Sawmills average 6.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.0 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.

6.5
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.3
BLS national benchmark
909
employers reporting
20,024
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Sawmills Safety Data Reveals

The Sawmills sector (NAICS 321113) encompasses 909 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 20,024 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 6.5 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Sawmills that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Turman Lumber Company Salem Salem, VA B 2.4
Jackson Hardwood Jackson, LA B 2.4
West Fraser Augusta Lumber Mill Augusta, GA B 2.4
West Fraser, Armour Riegelwood, NC B 2.4
RAYMOND Raymond, WA B 2.4
Biewer Sawmill Newton Newton, MS B 2.4
Schmitt Timber Spring Valley, WI B 2.4
Edwards Wood Products - Alamance Plant Liberty, NC B 2.4
PotlatchDeltic Manufacturing LLC, Ola Ola, AR B 2.4
Universal Forest Products LLC Yakima plant 406 Yakima, WA B 2.4
Deltic Timber Corporation - Waldo Mill Waldo, AR B 2.4
Wood Products, Inc. Oakland, MD B 2.3
Northwest Hardwoods, Inc. - Lewiston Lewiston, MI B 2.3
PotlatchDeltic Land & Lumber LLC Bemidji, MN B 2.3
Interfor US Molalla, OR B 2.3
Cottage Grove Lumber Cottage Grove, OR B 2.3
Lincoln Lumber Crockett, LLC Crockett, TX B 2.3
Interfor Port Angeles Port Angeles Wa, WA B 2.3
New Bern Vanceboro, NC B 2.3
GTL Lumber Ironton, OH B 2.3
Kerex, Inc. Breezewood, PA B 2.3
Westervelt Renewable Energy Aliceville, AL B 2.3
West Fraser Huttig Huttig, AR B 2.3
santiam Lebanon, OR B 2.3
Yazoo Lumber and Mats , LLC Yazoo, MS B 2.3
Quqlity Mill of Louisiana Gibsland, LA B 2.2
Jackson, Alabama Sawmill Jackson, AL B 2.2
Scotch Gulf Lumber LLC subsidiary of Canfor Southern Pine Fulton, AL B 2.2
White Mountain Lumber Berlin, NH B 2.2
Beadles and Balfour LLC Subsidiary of Canfor Southern Pine Thomasville, GA B 2.2
Greenville Lumber Grifton, NC B 2.2
Wilson Enterprises Wilson, MI B 2.2
Universal Forest products plant 388 Mcminnville, OR B 2.2
Byrd Lumber Co., Inc. Fernwood, MS B 2.2
M.C. Dixon Lumber Company, Inc. Eufaula, AL B 2.2
Ashton Lewis Sullivan Northport, AL B 2.2
Resolute Forest Products Eldorado, AR B 2.2
Kevin Williams Smithfield, NC B 2.2
Seaboard Lumber Mill Seaboard, NC B 2.2
West Fraser Opelika Opelika, AL B 2.2
Deltic Timber Corporation - Ola Mill Ola, AR B 2.2
Bibb Co. Properties Woodbury Woodburry, GA B 2.2
McKay Hardwoods Loudonville, OH B 2.1
Sims Bark Brent Brent, AL B 2.1
J P Smith Lumber Co., Inc. Menlo, GA B 2.1
Associated Hardwoods SC, Inc. Gaffney, SC B 2.1
Grand Prairie Blown Films Grand Prairie, TX B 2.1
Shaver Wood Product Cleveland, NC B 2.1
Plymouth Lumber Plymouth, NC B 2.1
OR042 Coos Bay Sawmill Coos Bay, OR B 2.1
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Working in Sawmills?

This sector averages 6.5 against a BLS benchmark of 3.3 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.