Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · North Carolina

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2

Lenoir, NC · ~155 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2 runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2: 5.9 TCR = 179% of Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2 safety composite

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.54 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.2

2022→2023

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2 injury rate improved

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2's TCR fell 4.2 from 8.0 in 2022 to 3.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.0 · 2023=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Lenoir, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #90/114
  • PHOTO Albany Industries - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Albany Industries - Galax (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2 averages 5.9 TCR (179% of the Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2 TCR series: 2022=8 · 2023=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2 falls in its industry

300 Household-type furniture, upho establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #90 safest of 114 Household-type furniture, upho employers in North Carolina.

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2 (155 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2
Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2 (155 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #2 has more employees than the Household-type furniture, upholstered, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 3.8 2.5 6 0 0
2022 8.0 4.3 14 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Lenoir

300 Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Lenoir, 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 Albany Industries - Galax 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albany Industries - Seffner 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Behold Washington, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Villa Furniture Manufacturing Company 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BU 3433 - I-440 Beltline Widen-Wake Cnty 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Downlite 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Fraser, Armour 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverlake Facility 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caldwell Memorial Hospital 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR HHG Lenoir Upholstery Plant 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC. 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caldwell County Government 451 FTE
NAT-TCR Emogene Dolin Jnes Hospice House 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Trusco LLC 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PACE - Winkler 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dewalch Technologies 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE James L. West Alzheimer's Center 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard at Jamestown 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springstone, Inc. 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office/Remote (HSV) 155 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.