Manufacturing · North Carolina

Blue Ridge Products

Hickory, NC · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Ridge Products runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Blue Ridge Products: 6.5 TCR = 195% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Ridge Products safety composite

Blue Ridge Products scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−11.5

2016→2020

Blue Ridge Products injury rate improved

Blue Ridge Products's TCR fell 11.5 from 11.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.5 · 2017=9.0 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 195% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/39
  • PHOTO Rochester Hills Plan…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rochester Hills Plant 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Ridge Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Ridge Products averages 6.5 TCR (195% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Ridge Products TCR series: 2016=11.5 · 2017=9 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Blue Ridge Products falls in its industry

474 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 39 Manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Blue Ridge Products (43 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Ridge Products
Blue Ridge Products (43 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Blue Ridge Products has fewer employees than the Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2017 9.0 5.4 5 0 0
2016 11.5 4.6 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · NC · Hickory

474 Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, 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 Rochester Hills Plant 1 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Future Foam, Inc 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innocor Foam Technologies, LLC - Dublin 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bridgestone APM FPD #5 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE LEWIS NURSERY 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Little Man Farming INC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC Grow Out 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Bern Complex 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 1995 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Langdon Place of Exeter 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mesquite 085 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TDC:TDNIC - TDNIC-Nicholasville, KY 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Piggly Wiggly #193 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE REC26, Inc., dba # 1 Cochran Toyota 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camp Street 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garden Court Rehab 43 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: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.