Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · North Carolina

36/27 Highland

Hickory, NC · ~171 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

36/27 Highland runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

36/27 Highland: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

36/27 Highland safety composite

36/27 Highland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

36/27 Highland: 2.2 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2017

36/27 Highland's TCR rose 3.1 from 2.2 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #18/22
  • PHOTO Ross and Wallace Paper
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ross and Wallace Paper (0.0 TCR gap)

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36/27 Highland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 36/27 Highland averages 3.7 TCR (113% 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

36/27 Highland TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where 36/27 Highland falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #18 safest of 22 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in North Carolina.

36/27 Highland (171 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 36/27 Highland
36/27 Highland (171 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

36/27 Highland 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
2017 5.3 4.7 9 0 0
2016 2.2 1.1 4 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 Ross and Wallace Paper 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CCL Label - Buffalo 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walden (formerly Ampac Paper LLC) 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RLG - Gintzler TX 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Asphalt Paving 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corp et al 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chesapeake Containment Systems, Inc. 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kings Mountain 171 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 Office/Plant 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Napoleon 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #130 (River Falls, WI) 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Stow Company 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roadrunner Drywall Arizona 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dartmouth (Madar) 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hickory Ridge Nursing & Rehab Center 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pitt Ohio - West Middlesex 171 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: 2017, 2016. 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.