Starch glues manufacturing · North Carolina

HarperLove

Charlotte, NC · ~69 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HarperLove runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Starch glues manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

HarperLove: 1.9 TCR = 59% of Starch glues manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HarperLove safety composite

HarperLove scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

HarperLove: 0.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.31× in 2024

HarperLove's TCR rose 4.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Charlotte, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 59% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO Chagrin Falls
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chagrin Falls (0.0 TCR gap)

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HarperLove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HarperLove averages 1.9 TCR (59% of the Starch glues manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HarperLove TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.6 · 2021=3 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where HarperLove falls in its industry

287 Starch glues manufacturing establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 12 Starch glues manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

HarperLove (69 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HarperLove
HarperLove (69 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

HarperLove has more employees than the Starch glues manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2024 4.5 4.5 3 0 0
2023 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2018 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.3 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · NC · Charlotte

287 Starch glues manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 Chagrin Falls 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chase Evanston 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR REXtac, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peabody 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE APEX OPERATIONS 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH RALEIGH OPERATIONS 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Regional Water & Sewer H2GO 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - Charlotte Office 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Gillette Stadium 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wolgast Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hickory Point 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Carpenter's Place 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crown Packaging - Memphis 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodward Inc. - WTC Facility 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0098 Las Vegas 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hutto TX Millwork 69 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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