Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · North Carolina

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6

Lenoir, NC · ~151 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6 runs at 135% 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 #6: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6 safety composite

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−1.1

2022→2023

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6 injury rate improved

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6's TCR fell 1.1 from 5.0 in 2022 to 3.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.0 · 2023=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #65/114
  • PHOTO 057 LCI
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 057 LCI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6 averages 4.5 TCR (135% 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 #6 TCR series: 2022=5 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6 falls in its industry

300 Household-type furniture, upho establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #65 safest of 114 Household-type furniture, upho employers in North Carolina.

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6 (151 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 #6
Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6 (151 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6 has more employees than the Household-type furniture, upholstered, m median and a lower 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 3.9 0.8 5 0 0
2022 5.0 4.4 8 0 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 057 LCI 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 6 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bassett Furniture Industries of NC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TB Arhaus, LLC - Plant 2 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Graycliff Enterprises 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aquafil OMara 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisiana-Pacific Roxboro 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poppelmann Plastics USA LLC 151 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 Plant 3 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Robinson Waste Services 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AZZ Galvanizing - Mobile 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Construction Co. of Ala. 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lion Elastomers Orange 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE AltaPointe Administration 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Jameson Inc - WI 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hines Precision Inc. 151 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.