Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Associated Hardwoods, Inc.

Granite Falls, NC · ~143 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Associated Hardwoods, Inc. runs at 378% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Associated Hardwoods, Inc.: 8.3 TCR = 378% of Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Associated Hardwoods, Inc. safety composite

Associated Hardwoods, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Associated Hardwoods, Inc.: 8.7 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2024

Associated Hardwoods, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.4 from 8.7 in 2016 to 10.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Granite Falls, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 378% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #62/68
  • PHOTO Kelleher Carneros
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kelleher Carneros (0.0 TCR gap)

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Associated Hardwoods, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Associated Hardwoods, Inc. averages 8.3 TCR (378% of the Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Associated Hardwoods, Inc. TCR series: 2016=8.7 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=11 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=10.7 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Associated Hardwoods, Inc. falls in its industry

1,225 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finishe establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 68 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finishe employers in North Carolina.

Associated Hardwoods, Inc. (143 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 050100150 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Associated Hardwoods, Inc.
Associated Hardwoods, Inc. (143 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Associated Hardwoods, Inc. has more employees than the Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 10.1 8.6 13 0 0
2023 10.7 1.3 16 0 0
2022 4.6 1.9 7 0 0
2021 3.6 1.8 6 0 0
2020 11.0 11.0 15 0 0
2019 9.4 9.4 14 0 0
2016 8.7 0.7 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · NC · Granite Falls

1,225 Lumber (e.g., dressed, finished, rough) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 16 employers in Granite Falls, 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 Kelleher Carneros 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR EL & EL Wood Products - Schaefer 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodgrain - Salt Lake City 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seaboard Holdings, LLC 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elkin 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Kentucky Statewide Operations 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernhard MCC L.L.C. CNC 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE prestige farms 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4410 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4410 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Falls Health&Rehab 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Falls Health & Rehabilitation, LLC 121 FTE
NAT-TCR Boise Horizon 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Matson Navigation Company of Alaska LLC Anchorage 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Marbach 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington Street 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Schaumburg 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE High Liner Foods HQ 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hollis Park Manor Nursing Home 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 143 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, 2020, 2019, 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.