Furniture Manufacturer · North Carolina

Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance

Advance, NC · ~1,519 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture Manufacturer workplace, earning a grade F.

Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance: 7.1 TCR = 215% of Furniture Manufacturer BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance safety composite

Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.45 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

Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance: 6.6 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2023

Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance's TCR rose 1.0 from 6.6 in 2021 to 7.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337122 · Advance, NC ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 215% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #19/24
  • PHOTO Residential Casegoods
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 179 inj
  • SIZE ~1,519 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Residential Casegoods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance averages 7.1 TCR (215% of the Furniture Manufacturer BLS benchmark).

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

Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance TCR series: 2021=6.6 · 2023=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance falls in its industry

130 Furniture Manufacturer establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 24 Furniture Manufacturer employers in North Carolina.

Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance (1,519 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance
Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance (1,519 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Ashley Furniture Industries - Advance has more employees than the Furniture Manufacturer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 7.6 6.5 91 2 0
2021 6.6 5.5 88 11 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337122 · NC · Advance

130 Furniture Manufacturer employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Advance, 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 Residential Casegoods 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lang Furniture, Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fusion Furniture Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office - 01 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CITY OF HIGH POINT 1,532 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advance NC Facility 1,504 FTE
STATE-SIZE RALEIGH (NCRAL) 1,498 FTE
STATE-SIZE Murdoch Developmental Center 1,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashley Furniture Industries Inc 1,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - North Carolina 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bermuda Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC-Advance 116 FTE
NAT-TCR Ever Better Eating Inc 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Madeleine Sophie's Center 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lappin Electric (Pc5890) 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pugh Lubricants West Memphis 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0559 - Indianapolis DC 1,519 FTE
NAT-SIZE Automotive Plant 1,519 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homestead Baptist Health 1,519 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Henry Ford 1,519 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, 2021. 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.