Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · North Carolina

36 Highland Tape

Hickory, NC · ~135 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

36 Highland Tape runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

36 Highland Tape: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

36 Highland Tape safety composite

36 Highland Tape scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

36 Highland Tape: 2.4 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2023

36 Highland Tape's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.4 in 2018 to 3.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #12/22
  • PHOTO Adhesives Research, …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Adhesives Research, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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36 Highland Tape in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 36 Highland Tape averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

36 Highland Tape TCR series: 2018=2.4 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=4.5 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=3 · BLS 3.3

Where 36 Highland Tape falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 22 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in North Carolina.

36 Highland Tape (135 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 36 Highland Tape
36 Highland Tape (135 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

36 Highland Tape has more employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 3.0 0.8 4 0 0
2022 2.7 2.0 4 0 0
2020 4.5 0.0 6 0 0
2019 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2018 2.4 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · NC · Hickory

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, 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 Adhesives Research, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bron Tapes, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burrows Packaging 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper - Bag Plant 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Edifice LLC 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE TCCo-CAR 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pure Power Contractors, LLC 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE South-Fair Electric 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Cottage Grove West (CGW) - Donkel 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Linc 3716 (Smyrna LLC - F) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR American Metals West Sacramento 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR EMPI Inc. DBA/034Motorsport 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4223-M1300 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Essity Operations Wausau, LLC. 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City 154 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4223-M3600 135 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, 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.