Carpets and rugs made from textile materials · Georgia

Cherokee Carpet

Dalton, GA · ~167 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cherokee Carpet runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Carpets and rugs made from textile materials workplace, earning a grade C.

Cherokee Carpet: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Carpets and rugs made from textile materials BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cherokee Carpet safety composite

Cherokee Carpet scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−1.7

2019→2020

Cherokee Carpet injury rate improved

Cherokee Carpet's TCR fell 1.7 from 4.7 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.7 · 2020=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314110 · Dalton, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #100/114
  • PHOTO Natco Products Corpo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Natco Products Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cherokee Carpet in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cherokee Carpet averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Carpets and rugs made from textile materials BLS benchmark).

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

Cherokee Carpet TCR series: 2019=4.7 · 2020=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Cherokee Carpet falls in its industry

165 Carpets and rugs made from tex establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #100 safest of 114 Carpets and rugs made from tex employers in Georgia.

Cherokee Carpet (167 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 170 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cherokee Carpet
Cherokee Carpet (167 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 170 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Cherokee Carpet has fewer employees than the Carpets and rugs made from textile mater median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 3.0 2.4 5 0 0
2019 4.7 3.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314110 · GA · Dalton

165 Carpets and rugs made from textile materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 292 employers in Dalton, GA · 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 Natco Products Corporation 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dorsett Industries (Dalton, Ga) 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ruggable Bedford Park 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Synthetic Turf Resources 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Excel Electrical Technologies, Inc. 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Moultrie - LLC 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chief Container Company, Inc. 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 70/86 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamilton Medical Center 1,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 97 1,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Dalton GA Antioch 1,077 FTE
NAT-TCR Readfield Grain/Liquid 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ACL Laboratories 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AMI Mechanical, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DAWSON 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nobel Biocare Procera LLC 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Division #22 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Health Professionals Inc. 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barton Supply 167 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.