Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · North Carolina

Klaussner Plant 9

Asheboro, NC · ~101 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Klaussner Plant 9 runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Klaussner Plant 9: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Klaussner Plant 9 safety composite

Klaussner Plant 9 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Klaussner Plant 9: 3.9 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2020

Klaussner Plant 9's TCR rose 1.8 from 3.9 in 2017 to 5.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #74/114
  • PHOTO Corporate
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corporate (0.0 TCR gap)

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Klaussner Plant 9 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Klaussner Plant 9 averages 5.0 TCR (152% 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 9 TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=7.9 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Klaussner Plant 9 falls in its industry

300 Household-type furniture, upho establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #74 safest of 114 Household-type furniture, upho employers in North Carolina.

Klaussner Plant 9 (101 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 9
Klaussner Plant 9 (101 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Klaussner Plant 9 has fewer employees than the Household-type furniture, upholstered, m 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 5.7 2.9 4 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2018 7.9 6.1 8 1 0
2017 3.9 1.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Asheboro

300 Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 139 employers in Asheboro, 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 Corporate 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHSE 30 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klaussner Plant 1,5,7 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Home Furnishings - Sofa Division 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greensboro Resource Center - PNG 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barringer Construction, LLC 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Services 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carrier Commercial Services (Charlotte Northwoods) 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8020236-Energizer/Asheboro 1,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8020236 Energizer Asheboro 654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Technimark, LLC Plant 5 633 FTE
CITY-NEAR Technimark LLC - Plant 5 466 FTE
NAT-TCR Bethleham 2 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Outpost Natural Foods-Capitol 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery - Accounting 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Dairy Transport-Logan 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gaston SEFF 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Equipment - Groveport 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quest 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warehouse 101 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.