Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · North Carolina

Klaussner Plant 28

Candor, NC · ~141 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Klaussner Plant 28 runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Klaussner Plant 28: 4.1 TCR = 125% of Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Klaussner Plant 28 safety composite

Klaussner Plant 28 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Klaussner Plant 28: 1.2 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2020

Klaussner Plant 28's TCR rose 6.2 from 1.2 in 2017 to 7.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Candor, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 125% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #59/114
  • PHOTO Ashley Furniture Ind…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Klaussner Plant 28 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Klaussner Plant 28 averages 4.1 TCR (125% of the Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Klaussner Plant 28 TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Klaussner Plant 28 falls in its industry

300 Household-type furniture, upho establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 114 Household-type furniture, upho employers in North Carolina.

Klaussner Plant 28 (141 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Klaussner Plant 28
Klaussner Plant 28 (141 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Klaussner Plant 28 has more employees than the Household-type furniture, upholstered, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020 7.4 5.9 5 0 0
2019 3.4 1.4 5 0 0
2018 4.4 3.2 7 0 0
2017 1.2 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Candor

300 Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 7 employers in Candor, 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 Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHSE 01 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR England Furniture 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klaussner Plant 20 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clancy & Theys Construction Company - Raleigh, NC 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Manpower LLC 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCH 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Veneer Technologies Inc. 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Klaussner Plant 88 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Feed Delivery North Carolina 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Candor Feed Mill 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Klaussner Plant 4/51 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Colonial Manor Health Care Center 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Morey's Seafood International LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dynacraft - Algona 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Frank Liquor Company Inc 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ON Semiconductor Maine 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Xtreme Tower Products 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE SP Industries Inc - Pocomoke 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 141 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: 2020, 2019, 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.