Bed frames, wood household-type, manufacturing · North Carolina

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5

Lenoir, NC · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5 runs at 280% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bed frames, wood household-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5: 9.2 TCR = 280% of Bed frames, wood household-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5 safety composite

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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 9.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5: 5.2 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2023

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5's TCR rose 8.2 from 5.2 in 2022 to 13.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337122 · Lenoir, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 280% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #22/24
  • PHOTO Seaside Casual
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seaside Casual (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5 averages 9.2 TCR (280% of the Bed frames, wood household-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5 TCR series: 2022=5.2 · 2023=13.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5 falls in its industry

130 Bed frames, wood household-typ establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #22 safest of 24 Bed frames, wood household-typ employers in North Carolina.

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5 (55 employees, TCR 9.2) 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5
Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5 (55 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #5 has fewer employees than the Bed frames, wood household-type, manufac 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 13.3 5.7 5 2 0
2022 5.2 3.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337122 · NC · Lenoir

130 Bed frames, wood household-type, 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 Seaside Casual 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arcadia Facility 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caldwell Cabinets of NC, LLC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amana Furniture Shop 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Battleboro Produce Inc 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whitaker Farms LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenleaf Nursery Company 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sutton Energy Complex 55 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 Fox Ridge Manor 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR All-Phase Electric Supply (Pc2700) 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Electrical Distributors (Pc0146) 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Terrace 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE bioMerieux Salt Lake City Murray 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Anthony's Hospice 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Surgery Center Howard 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE RoofMaster Maintenance & Roofing, Inc 55 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.