Employer · North Carolina

Foster-Caviness Company Inc

Colfax, NC · ~161 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foster-Caviness Company Inc runs at 379% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Foster-Caviness Company Inc: 8.3 TCR = 379% of industry BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foster-Caviness Company Inc safety composite

Foster-Caviness Company Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Foster-Caviness Company Inc: 8.1 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2018

Foster-Caviness Company Inc's TCR rose 0.5 from 8.1 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Colfax, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 379% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO SunRiver of Idaho Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SunRiver of Idaho Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foster-Caviness Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foster-Caviness Company Inc averages 8.3 TCR (379% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Foster-Caviness Company Inc TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2018=8.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Foster-Caviness Company Inc falls in its industry

369 industry establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 industry employers in North Carolina.

Foster-Caviness Company Inc (161 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Foster-Caviness Company Inc
Foster-Caviness Company Inc (161 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Foster-Caviness Company Inc has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 8.6 5.9 13 0 0
2016 8.1 5.8 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · NC · Colfax

369 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 29 employers in Colfax, 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 SunRiver of Idaho Inc 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DMFP- Greensboro 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR J & D Produce, Inc. New Mexico 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aloha Produce 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pike Telecom and Renewables Massachuttes Statewide Operations 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennoca Construction Company 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE System Logistics Corporation 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warco Construction Inc 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverlanding 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR River Landing at Sandy Ridge 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phillips Corporation - Commercial Division 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR IPG - Colfax 145 FTE
NAT-TCR Solaris Healthcare Bayonet Point 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Hayes School for Special Children 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SYGMA Denver 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #102 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Galleria Woods 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE ECS Case 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE RCX Louisiana 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hellenic Womens Benevolent Association 161 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, 2016. 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.