Chewing tobacco manufacturing · North Carolina

ASC Taylor Brothers

Name: ASC Taylor Brothers Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Winston-Salem, NC · ~231 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

ASC Taylor Brothers runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chewing tobacco manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

ASC Taylor Brothers: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ASC Taylor Brothers safety composite

ASC Taylor Brothers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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).

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

ASC Taylor Brothers held a steady TCR band

ASC Taylor Brothers's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.2 in 2023 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.2 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Winston-Salem, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

DART 1.4 DART
RANK #13/17
PHOTO Nat Sherman - Greens…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~231 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nat Sherman - Greensboro, NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows ASC Taylor Brothers averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS benchmark).

ASC Taylor Brothers TCR series: 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where ASC Taylor Brothers falls in its industry

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 17 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

ASC Taylor Brothers (231 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

ASC Taylor Brothers has more employees than the Chewing tobacco manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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	1.9	1.4	4	0	0
2023	2.2	1.6	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · NC · Winston-Salem

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 234 employers in Winston-Salem, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Nat Sherman - Greensboro, NC	GREENSBORO, NC	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Swedish Match	OWENSBORO, KY	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Taylor Brothers	WINSTON SALEM, NC	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company	OXFORD, NC	2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	GSM Services	GASTONIA	231 FTE
STATE-SIZE	P&G GBO Manufacturing	GREENSBORO	231 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Precision Hydraulic Cylinders, Inc	BEULAVILLE	231 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Casegoods	HICKORY	231 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center	Winston-Salem	4,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The Budd Group Janitorial	Winston-Salem	4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Reynolds American Inc. Trade Marketing Services	Winston-Salem	2,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Reynolds Marketing Services Company	Winston-Salem	1,600 FTE
NAT-TCR	Lake Stevens Sewer District	Lake Stevens, WA	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sposeto Engineering, Inc.	Livermore, CA	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	ECM Enterprises Inc. dba Ace Electric	Plattsburgh, NY	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Safran Aerospace Composites	Rochester, NH	2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	MG Ambulatory Care Center	Maple Grove, MN	231 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Vamec - Mechanicsville	Mechanicsville, VA	231 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Txlci - League City	League City, TX	231 FTE
NAT-SIZE	R&L Contracting, Inc	Wasco, CA	231 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.