Lotions (e.g., body, face, hand) manufacturing · North Carolina

Burt's Bees

Morrisville, NC · ~197 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burt's Bees runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lotions (e.g., body, face, hand) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Burt's Bees: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Lotions (e.g., body, face, hand) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burt's Bees safety composite

Burt's Bees scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

Burt's Bees held a steady TCR band

Burt's Bees's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.6 in 2016 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.6 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=1.0 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.5 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325620 · Morrisville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Estee Lauder - Bristol
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~197 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Estee Lauder - Bristol (0.0 TCR gap)

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Burt's Bees in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burt's Bees averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Lotions (e.g., body, face, hand) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Burt's Bees TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=1 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.5 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Burt's Bees falls in its industry

260 Lotions (e.g., body, face, han establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Lotions (e.g., body, face, han employers in North Carolina.

Burt's Bees (197 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Burt's Bees
Burt's Bees (197 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Burt's Bees has more employees than the Lotions (e.g., body, face, hand) manufac median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.5 0.0 3 0 0
2021 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2019 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2018 1.3 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325620 · NC · Morrisville

260 Lotions (e.g., body, face, hand) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 219 employers in Morrisville, 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 Estee Lauder - Bristol 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Voyant Beauty Ridgefield 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Estee Lauder - Greenway 155 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Givaudan Fragrances-NYC 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sealing Agents 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 36-37 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yale Security Inc. - Norton Door 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunter Douglas Window Designs - NC 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lenovo - Development Drive 2,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC_Morrisville_4200 Paramount Pkwy_ECA42PAR 962 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lenovo - Think Place 794 FTE
CITY-NEAR Teleflex Morrisville 649 FTE
NAT-TCR D85 Irvine 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nokomis LLC. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway Industries LLC - Chemours Washington Works Chemical 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Haven House 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hydro Mountain Top 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE St John Neumann Center 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kandiyohi County Law Enforcement Center 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE LewisGale Hospital Alleghany 197 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, 2022, 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.