Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · North Carolina

Century Upholstery Plant # 2

Hickory, NC · ~130 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Century Upholstery Plant # 2 runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Century Upholstery Plant # 2: 3.2 TCR = 97% of Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Century Upholstery Plant # 2 safety composite

Century Upholstery Plant # 2 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−2.6

2016→2023

Century Upholstery Plant # 2 injury rate improved

Century Upholstery Plant # 2's TCR fell 2.6 from 5.8 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.8 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=1.5 · 2023=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 97% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #36/114
  • PHOTO Bernhardt Furniture …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #7 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Century Upholstery Plant # 2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Century Upholstery Plant # 2 averages 3.2 TCR (97% of the Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Century Upholstery Plant # 2 TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=1.5 · 2023=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Century Upholstery Plant # 2 falls in its industry

300 Household-type furniture, upho establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #36 safest of 114 Household-type furniture, upho employers in North Carolina.

Century Upholstery Plant # 2 (130 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 Upholstery Plant # 2
Century Upholstery Plant # 2 (130 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Century Upholstery Plant # 2 has more employees than the Household-type furniture, upholstered, m 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 3.2 1.6 4 0 0
2019 1.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.1 1.5 4 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 1 2 0
2016 5.8 4.2 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Hickory

300 Household-type furniture, upholstered, 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 Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #7 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR La-Z-Boy South 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vanguard Main VGM 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Interiors Furniture Company 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Starr Electric Company, Inc Raleigh 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bonitz Flooring and Contracting Charlotte 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Industries, LP Oral Finished Products 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC Johnson Professional - Corporate office and sales 130 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 T&D 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fm2 - Facilities Management 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR IGHL 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Marine Biological Laboratory 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omni Royal Orleans 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heimes Corporation 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Formrite Companies 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clayton Supply of Winfield 130 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.