Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing · North Carolina

Beardow Adams

Charlotte, NC · ~28 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Beardow Adams runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Beardow Adams: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Beardow Adams safety composite

Beardow Adams scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Beardow Adams: 3.3 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.89× in 2023

Beardow Adams's TCR rose 3.9 from 3.3 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO Huntsman Advanced Ma…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Huntsman Advanced Materials (0.0 TCR gap)

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Beardow Adams in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Beardow Adams averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Beardow Adams TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=3 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Beardow Adams falls in its industry

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, den establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 12 Adhesives (except asphalt, den employers in North Carolina.

Beardow Adams (28 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Beardow Adams
Beardow Adams (28 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Beardow Adams has fewer employees than the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 7.1 7.1 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.4 3.2 2 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2018 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2016 3.3 3.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · NC · Charlotte

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 Huntsman Advanced Materials 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jowat Corporation 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eclectic Pineville 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bemis Associates, Inc. 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE H & D Farms, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMITH FARMS 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Morris Farms 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkin Hatchery 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Pella Windows and Doors Mountain West - UT 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Arthrex Logistics Center 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascadia Services, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Famarock dba Rockenwagner 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE BT Milwaukee 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE SA Recycling, Long Beach 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huckleberry's #638 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howie's Enterprises LLC 28 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.