Chewing tobacco manufacturing · North Carolina

ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing

Greensboro, NC · ~904 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chewing tobacco manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing safety composite

ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Rising injury rate

ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing: 1.3 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2017

ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.3 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Greensboro, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #9/17
  • PHOTO American Snuff Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~904 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Snuff Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Chewing tobacco manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing falls in its industry

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 17 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing (904 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing
ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing (904 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing has more employees than the Chewing tobacco manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2017 1.7 0.6 10 2 0
2016 1.3 0.5 7 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · NC · Greensboro

53 Chewing tobacco manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 920 employers in Greensboro, 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 American Snuff Company 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Company, Inc. - Main Office 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shorefair Manufacturing 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tobaccoville Manufacturing 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bell & Howell LLC 904 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6935-CMUD-WATER 906 FTE
STATE-SIZE DLP Wilson Medical Center 907 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPT-ODFL 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR MHCMH-Cone-Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital 3,806 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government - All Employees 3,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government 3,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCGRE - GREENSBORO HUB 2,447 FTE
NAT-TCR Omron Automotive Electronics, Inc (Relay) 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresh Foods Manufacturing (C149) 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5164 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Penske : 4721-00 Cardinal/Tampa, FL 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hopkinton 228 904 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADOC-Florence 904 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global Operations Center 904 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-CSCS 904 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.