Pillows, bed, made from purchased materials · North Carolina

HomTex, Inc. - Sylva

Name: HomTex, Inc. - Sylva Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Sylva, NC · ~37 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

HomTex, Inc. - Sylva runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pillows, bed, made from purchased materials workplace, earning a grade D.

HomTex, Inc. - Sylva: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Pillows, bed, made from purchased materials BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HomTex, Inc. - Sylva safety composite

HomTex, Inc. - Sylva scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.86 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2018→2023

HomTex, Inc. - Sylva injury rate improved

HomTex, Inc. - Sylva's TCR fell 0.5 from 9.6 in 2018 to 9.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.6 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=9.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314120 · Sylva, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

DART 6.9 DART
RANK #6/8
PHOTO Fluvitex, USA
BOOK 6y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fluvitex, USA (0.2 TCR gap)

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TX-01

7.1
Arden Companie

7
This site

6.5
Fluvitex, USA

6.3
Hollander Slee

6

What this shows HomTex, Inc. - Sylva averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Pillows, bed, made from purchased materials BLS benchmark).

HomTex, Inc. - Sylva TCR series: 2018=9.6 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=9.2 · BLS 3.3

Where HomTex, Inc. - Sylva falls in its industry

97 Pillows, bed, made from purcha establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Pillows, bed, made from purcha employers in North Carolina.

HomTex, Inc. - Sylva (37 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 3.8

HomTex, Inc. - Sylva has fewer employees than the Pillows, bed, made from purchased materi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2023	9.2	6.9	3	1
2022	5.9	2.9	2	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0	0
2020	7.7	2.6	3	0
2019	6.9	0.0	3	0
2018	9.6	0.0	4	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314120 · NC · Sylva

97 Pillows, bed, made from purchased materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Sylva, 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	Fluvitex, USA	GROVEPORT, OH	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Arden Companies - Fort Wayne	FORT WAYNE, IN	7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hollander Sleep Products - Henderson	HENDERSON, NC	6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	TX-01	DALLAS, TX	7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	CAR Greenhouse LLC	HENDERSONVILLEN	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Statesville Breeders	STATESVILLE	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dan River CT/CC	EDEN	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	hep Petra, LLC	HUNTERSVILLE	37 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HARRIS REGIONAL HOSPITAL	Sylva	576 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jackson County	Sylva	513 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DLP Harris Regional Hospital LLC	Sylva	505 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 2440	Sylva	300 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ideal Image, Inc.	Englewood, OH	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Spectrum Woodworking & Interiors LLC	Oregon City, OR	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	SoCal DC	La Mirada, CA	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Shelbyville Shop	Shelbyville, IN	6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Dominion Sevierville, LLC	Sevierville, TN	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dominion Louisville, LLC	Louisville, KY	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	HC The Highland Rim Columbia	Columbia, TN	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Classic Accident Repair Center	Mentor, OH	37 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.