Cigarettes manufacturing · North Carolina

Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development

Winston-Salem, NC · ~280 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cigarettes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Cigarettes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development safety composite

Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.5

2016→2020

Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development injury rate improved

Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development's TCR fell 0.5 from 0.9 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.9 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.3 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Winston-Salem, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #5/17
  • PHOTO RJRT Main Office
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RJRT Main Office (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Cigarettes manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.3 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development falls in its industry

53 Cigarettes manufacturing establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 17 Cigarettes manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development (280 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development
Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development (280 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Bowman Gray Technical Center - Research and Development has more employees than the Cigarettes manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2019 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · NC · Winston-Salem

53 Cigarettes manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 234 employers in Winston-Salem, 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 RJRT Main Office 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Snuff Company - Taylor Brothers 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Carolina Tobacco Manufacturing LLC 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sales 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Guy M. Turner, Inc. 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaefer Systems International, Inc. 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE UPM Raflatac Mills River 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amesbury Group Inc. 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center 4,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Budd Group Janitorial 4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds American Inc. Trade Marketing Services 2,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds Marketing Services Company 1,600 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilmington HQ 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bell - Plant 1 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR One Touch Point - East 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Business Office 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Automatic Spring Products Corp. - Taylor 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaPorte Physician Network 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sterling Steel Company 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michigan Cat Novi 280 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, 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.