Living room furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · North Carolina

Klaussner Plant 4/51

Candor, NC · ~55 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Klaussner Plant 4/51 runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Living room furniture, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Klaussner Plant 4/51: 4.7 TCR = 143% of Living room furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Klaussner Plant 4/51 safety composite

Klaussner Plant 4/51 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2018→2020

Klaussner Plant 4/51 injury rate improved

Klaussner Plant 4/51's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.3 in 2018 to 2.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.3 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #70/114
  • PHOTO Lee Industries Plant 3
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lee Industries Plant 3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Klaussner Plant 4/51 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Klaussner Plant 4/51 averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the Living room furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Klaussner Plant 4/51 TCR series: 2018=3.3 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Klaussner Plant 4/51 falls in its industry

300 Living room furniture, upholst establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #70 safest of 114 Living room furniture, upholst employers in North Carolina.

Klaussner Plant 4/51 (55 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 4/51
Klaussner Plant 4/51 (55 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Klaussner Plant 4/51 has fewer employees than the Living room furniture, upholstered, manu median and a higher 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 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2019 8.1 8.1 3 0 0
2018 3.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Candor

300 Living room 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 Lee Industries Plant 3 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR IKEA Industry Danville 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prospect St. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ethan Allen Operations, Inc. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Battleboro Produce Inc 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whitaker Farms LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenleaf Nursery Company 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sutton Energy Complex 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Klaussner Plant 28 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Klaussner Plant 88 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Feed Delivery North Carolina 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Candor Feed Mill 62 FTE
NAT-TCR MMC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SEL: Lewiston, ID 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MO-SCI Corporation 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Silver Spring 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hydro Consulting & Maintenance Services, Inc. 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami SEFF 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spokane WA Truss 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE White Lake Middle School 55 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. 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.