Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing · North Carolina

Conover Mulch Plant

Conover, NC · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Conover Mulch Plant runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Conover Mulch Plant: 5.6 TCR = 168% of Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Conover Mulch Plant safety composite

Conover Mulch Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Conover Mulch Plant: 3.1 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2019

Conover Mulch Plant's TCR rose 4.9 from 3.1 in 2018 to 8.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Conover, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 168% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #18/20
  • PHOTO Dadant and Sons Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dadant and Sons Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Conover Mulch Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Conover Mulch Plant averages 5.6 TCR (168% of the Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Conover Mulch Plant TCR series: 2018=3.1 · 2019=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Conover Mulch Plant falls in its industry

405 Novelties, wood fiber, manufac establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 20 Novelties, wood fiber, manufac employers in North Carolina.

Conover Mulch Plant (95 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Conover Mulch Plant
Conover Mulch Plant (95 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Conover Mulch Plant has more employees than the Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019 8.0 6.7 12 0 0
2018 3.1 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · NC · Conover

405 Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 95 employers in Conover, 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 Dadant and Sons Inc 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR west virginia spilt rail 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UFP Nappanee, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWPI-Petersburg 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Circle S Ranch NC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh North Transmission and Distribution Operations Center 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE MB Haynes Corporation (Office) 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carolina Conduit Systems, Inc 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zenith - Conover 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4224 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4224 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2510 Conover Folding 309 FTE
NAT-TCR Mt. Vernon City Schools, District #80 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fern Terrace of Murray, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Radisson Rochester Airport 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hi-Tech Express Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE J H Lynch - Millbury 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fagron Sterile Services 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridgepoint Center 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wingate on Blackstone 95 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.