Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · North Carolina

Kroehler

Conover, NC · ~233 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kroehler runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kroehler: 7.3 TCR = 221% of Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kroehler safety composite

Kroehler scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−16.8

2016→2024

Kroehler injury rate improved

Kroehler's TCR fell 16.8 from 20.5 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 20.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=20.5 · 2017=19.8 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 221% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #100/114
  • PHOTO Klaussner Plant 75
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 115 inj
  • SIZE ~233 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Klaussner Plant 75 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kroehler in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kroehler averages 7.3 TCR (221% 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

Kroehler TCR series: 2016=20.5 · 2017=19.8 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Kroehler falls in its industry

300 Household-type furniture, upho establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #100 safest of 114 Household-type furniture, upho employers in North Carolina.

Kroehler (233 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 Kroehler
Kroehler (233 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Kroehler has more 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
2024 3.7 3.7 9 0 0
2023 1.4 0.9 3 0 0
2022 3.3 2.7 11 0 0
2021 3.1 3.1 10 0 0
2020 7.2 6.7 14 0 0
2019 4.5 3.1 10 0 0
2018 2.2 1.8 5 0 0
2017 19.8 18.9 24 0 0
2016 20.5 19.1 29 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Conover

300 Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 95 employers in Conover, 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 Klaussner Plant 75 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ripley 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Akin House, Inc. 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Precision Fabrics Group, Inc 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE BRP US Inc. Spruce Pine 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE KSMCastings USA 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1505 - Mooresville 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zenith - Conover 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4224 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4224 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2510 Conover Folding 309 FTE
NAT-TCR Sheffield Pharmaceuticals, LLC - New London CT 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR LOO 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR URD 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR XHP 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Home Care & Hospice 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic Plastics, Ltd. (TX) 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tosoh SMD - Grove City 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerald Jones Vw, Inc 233 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.