Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing · North Carolina

06500 - Carolina Art & Frame

Kernersville, NC · ~63 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

06500 - Carolina Art & Frame runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

06500 - Carolina Art & Frame: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

06500 - Carolina Art & Frame safety composite

06500 - Carolina Art & Frame scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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)
A 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

06500 - Carolina Art & Frame: 1.8 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.99× in 2024

06500 - Carolina Art & Frame's TCR rose 3.4 from 1.8 in 2021 to 5.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321912 · Kernersville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #3/18
  • PHOTO Pioneer Cut Stock, Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pioneer Cut Stock, Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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06500 - Carolina Art & Frame in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 06500 - Carolina Art & Frame averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

06500 - Carolina Art & Frame TCR series: 2021=1.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where 06500 - Carolina Art & Frame falls in its industry

178 Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pi establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 18 Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pi employers in North Carolina.

06500 - Carolina Art & Frame (63 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 06500 - Carolina Art & Frame
06500 - Carolina Art & Frame (63 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 5.1

06500 - Carolina Art & Frame has more employees than the Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handle median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321912 · NC · Kernersville

178 Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, NC · 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 Pioneer Cut Stock, Inc 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fiber Composites LLC 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hiland Wood Products Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Forest Products 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith Energy Complex 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Union Power Cooperative - Oakboro 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asheboro Office 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH DURHAM OPERATIONS 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Kernersville 782 FTE
NAT-TCR General Dynamics Ordinance and Tactical Systems 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ryder ICDC - 4965 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pro-Active Engineering 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR FR 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bayside SNF LLC 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pankl Aerospace 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Opus Packaging - Indianapolis 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robey Excavating LLC 63 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.