Polyurethane foam products manufacturing · North Carolina

Longview Branch

Hickory, NC · ~142 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Longview Branch runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Polyurethane foam products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Longview Branch: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Polyurethane foam products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Longview Branch safety composite

Longview Branch scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Longview Branch: 2.6 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

Longview Branch's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.6 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #15/39
  • PHOTO Pregis- Plymouth
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pregis- Plymouth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Longview Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Longview Branch averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Polyurethane foam products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Longview Branch TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=4 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Longview Branch falls in its industry

474 Polyurethane foam products man establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 39 Polyurethane foam products man employers in North Carolina.

Longview Branch (142 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Longview Branch
Longview Branch (142 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Longview Branch has more employees than the Polyurethane foam products manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2024 3.3 2.5 4 0 0
2023 2.3 1.5 3 0 0
2022 4.0 4.0 6 0 0
2021 4.2 4.2 6 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.6 1.3 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · NC · Hickory

474 Polyurethane foam products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, 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 Pregis- Plymouth 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pak-Lite Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FXI, Inc. - Brenham 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creative Foam - Alloy 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shelco, LLC 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delta Contracting Inc. 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burford Construction North Carolina Statewide Operations 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parton Lumber Company 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR 60th Street Converting 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilltop 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Plus Mark LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR McCullough Construction Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flynn Enterprises, LLC 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brunswick Ga 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seither & Cherry Company 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE LSX 142 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.