Wood framed furniture, upholstered, household-type, manufacturing · North Carolina

Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3

Hickory, NC · ~172 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wood framed furniture, upholstered, household-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Wood framed furniture, upholstered, household-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 safety composite

Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−5.5

2016→2023

Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 injury rate improved

Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3's TCR fell 5.5 from 7.6 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.6 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=2.3 · 2023=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #57/114
  • PHOTO Lee Industries Plant 5
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lee Industries Plant 5 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Wood framed furniture, upholstered, household-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 TCR series: 2016=7.6 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=2.3 · 2023=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 falls in its industry

300 Wood framed furniture, upholst establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #57 safest of 114 Wood framed furniture, upholst employers in North Carolina.

Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 (172 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3
Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 (172 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 has more employees than the Wood framed furniture, upholstered, hous 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 2.1 2.1 3 0 0
2019 2.3 1.2 4 0 0
2018 3.6 1.8 3 3 0
2017 4.3 1.9 6 1 0
2016 7.6 4.4 11 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Hickory

300 Wood framed furniture, upholstered, household-type, 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 Lee Industries Plant 5 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TNFOAMPLANT 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHSE 14 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klaussner Plant 20 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Little Rock Operations Center 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Fraser Inc - Armour Lumber Mill 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Teijin Automotive Technologies North Carolina Composites, LLC 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Budd Group Production 172 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 Trayer Engineering Corporation 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Crystal Distribution Services 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Brook Park District 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jamison Home Services, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arrow Gear Company 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cosette Pharmaceuticals Inc 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE uniQure, Inc 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco Idaho 172 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, 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.