Furniture dimension stock, hardwood, unfinished, manufacturing · North Carolina

Bassett Upholstery

Newton, NC · ~594 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bassett Upholstery runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Furniture dimension stock, hardwood, unfinished, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bassett Upholstery: 4.3 TCR = 132% of Furniture dimension stock, hardwood, unfinished, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bassett Upholstery safety composite

Bassett Upholstery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Bassett Upholstery: 4.7 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Bassett Upholstery's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.7 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321912 · Newton, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 132% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #13/18
  • PHOTO Precision Lumber
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 98 inj
  • SIZE ~594 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Precision Lumber (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bassett Upholstery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bassett Upholstery averages 4.3 TCR (132% of the Furniture dimension stock, hardwood, unfinished, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bassett Upholstery TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2018=3.8 · 2022=3.9 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Bassett Upholstery falls in its industry

178 Furniture dimension stock, har establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

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 18 Furniture dimension stock, har employers in North Carolina.

Bassett Upholstery (594 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bassett Upholstery
Bassett Upholstery (594 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Bassett Upholstery has more employees than the Furniture dimension stock, hardwood, unf median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 5.1 2.9 23 0 0
2022 3.9 0.9 25 0 0
2018 3.8 0.8 24 0 0
2016 4.7 1.4 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321912 · NC · Newton

178 Furniture dimension stock, hardwood, unfinished, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 83 employers in Newton, 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 Precision Lumber 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bingaman & Son Lumber, Kreamer Division 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conner Lugoff SC Plant 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewis Brothers Lumber Co., Inc. 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6458-KANN 594 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6858 594 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrolux Home Products 596 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. 592 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton NC DC 1,644 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton DC 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN ePowertrain Newton 1,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Driveline Newton LLC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR 3975 Township Line Road 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 002 - Chapel Glen Elementary 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR IAA 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Shop Rite of Essex Green 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Company Headquarters 594 FTE
NAT-SIZE Douglasville, GA - 04 594 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-Santa Clara 594 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1005 - Alsip 594 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, 2022, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.