Applicators, wood, manufacturing · North Carolina

Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln

Name: Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Liberty, NC · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln: 0.6 TCR = 19% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln safety composite

Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−1.2

2017→2018

Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln injury rate improved

Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln's TCR fell 1.2 from 1.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.2 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Liberty, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 19% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #1/20
PHOTO Waterloo
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waterloo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterloo

0.7
Carrollton 12

0.7
This site

0.6
Temple Reels -

0.6
Green Vision M

0.6

What this shows Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln averages 0.6 TCR (19% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 20 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in North Carolina.

Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln (23 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Edwards Wood Products - Libery Dry Kiln has fewer employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing median and a lower 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
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2017	1.2	1.2	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · NC · Liberty

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 22 employers in Liberty, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Waterloo	WATERLOO, IN	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Carrollton 12 for Life	CARROLLTON, GA	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Temple Reels - A832	TEMPLE, GA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Green Vision Materials, Inc.	WICKLIFFE, OH	0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Farm	HIDDENITE	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SOUTHERN PINES 1 SOW -EST	GARLAND	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cotton Gin	LEWISTON	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Monroe Growout	MONROE	23 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MasterBrand Cabinets, Inc.	Liberty	285 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Masterbrand Cabinets - Liberty Operations	Liberty	240 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Masterbrand	Liberty	229 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pallet Express	Liberty	217 FTE
NAT-TCR	Kelvyn Press/Financial Graphic, Inc.	Broadview, IL	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Admin	Wayne, NJ	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Corporate	Sioux City, IA	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sales - Avenue Plaza	New Orleans, LA	0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Morrison DYO	Morrison, TN	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The April Corporation	Bowling Green, KY	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	KTC 50020 Collins	Collins, MS	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kennewick_Yakima	Kennewick, WA	23 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: 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.