Coffee tables, wood, manufacturing · North Carolina

Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3

Lenoir, NC · ~136 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3 runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Coffee tables, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Coffee tables, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3 safety composite

Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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 Plant 3: 2.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2024

Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3's TCR rose 2.4 from 2.0 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #10/24
  • PHOTO Lakeland Mills Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakeland Mills Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3 averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Coffee tables, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3 TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=7.9 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=5 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3 falls in its industry

130 Coffee tables, wood, manufactu establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #10 safest of 24 Coffee tables, wood, manufactu employers in North Carolina.

Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3 (136 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Plant 3
Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3 (136 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3 has more employees than the Coffee tables, wood, manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 4.4 4.4 4 0 0
2021 5.0 4.0 4 1 0
2020 5.1 5.1 5 0 0
2019 7.9 3.5 7 2 0
2018 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2017 4.2 0.0 5 2 0
2016 2.0 0.0 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337122 · NC · Lenoir

130 Coffee tables, wood, 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 Lakeland Mills Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodley's Factory 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interior Crafts Inc 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Timber Hiddenite 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Union Power Cooperative 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saputo Cheese USA, Inc. 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC316 Mt. Holly NC 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Mid-Atlantic, LLC 136 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 D.I.J. Construction 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Interstate Companies, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Freedom Fire Pro, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FREEZER 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ocean Spray Cranberries 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Malco Products, Inc. 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE RES Contractors 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Floyd Cherokee Medical Center 136 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.