Hardboard manufacturing · North Carolina

Custom Finishers

High Point, NC · ~35 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Custom Finishers runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hardboard manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Custom Finishers: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Hardboard manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Custom Finishers safety composite

Custom Finishers scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Custom Finishers held a steady TCR band

Custom Finishers's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.4 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321219 · High Point, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO 0310 - Fiber-Pennsyl…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0310 - Fiber-Pennsylvania (0.0 TCR gap)

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Custom Finishers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Custom Finishers averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Hardboard manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Custom Finishers TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Custom Finishers falls in its industry

125 Hardboard manufacturing establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Hardboard manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Custom Finishers (35 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Custom Finishers
Custom Finishers (35 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Custom Finishers has fewer employees than the Hardboard manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2024 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2021 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.3 0.0 0 1 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321219 · NC · High Point

125 Hardboard manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 243 employers in High Point, 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 0310 - Fiber-Pennsylvania 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AR207 Hope Particleboard 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norbord 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaSalle Bioenergy 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boykin Farms, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE NEW COLONY SOW FARM 6276 -EST 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsboro Field Services 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butterball LLC Hatchery # 2 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR WFBMC - High Point Medical Center 1,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITY OF HIGH POINT 1,532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thomas Built Buses 1,467 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Point Medical Center 1,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Leppinks Belding 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Reynolds Construction LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 2 Elizabeth 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR East Coast Plumbing & HVAC, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gruber Pallets, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE At Home Stores #176 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE At Home Stores #172 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ely Clinic 35 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.