Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing · North Carolina

C.R. Laine Furniture

Hickory, NC · ~195 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C.R. Laine Furniture runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

C.R. Laine Furniture: 4.4 TCR = 133% of Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C.R. Laine Furniture safety composite

C.R. Laine Furniture scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−3.2

2016→2019

C.R. Laine Furniture injury rate improved

C.R. Laine Furniture's TCR fell 3.2 from 5.9 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 133% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #61/114
  • PHOTO Bassett Furniture In…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~195 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bassett Furniture Industries of NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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C.R. Laine Furniture in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C.R. Laine Furniture averages 4.4 TCR (133% of the Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

C.R. Laine Furniture TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where C.R. Laine Furniture falls in its industry

300 Furniture, household-type, uph establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #61 safest of 114 Furniture, household-type, uph employers in North Carolina.

C.R. Laine Furniture (195 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 C.R. Laine Furniture
C.R. Laine Furniture (195 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

C.R. Laine Furniture has more employees than the Furniture, household-type, upholstered o 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
2019 2.7 1.1 4 1 0
2018 5.6 2.2 10 0 0
2017 3.5 0.6 6 0 0
2016 5.9 2.4 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Hickory

300 Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, 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 Bassett Furniture Industries of NC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TB Arhaus, LLC - Plant 2 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vintage Leather 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 6 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE BE&K Building Group, LLC 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE LJ Electrical Inc. 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Park 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE King Hickory Furniture Company 195 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 WTQUI 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR # 1 Cochran Hyundai of South Hills 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Hotels & Resorts 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rochester Tech Park 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Renewable Water Resources 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Plant 23 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midstates Printing 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daytona Beach Health & Rehabilitation Center 195 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, 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.