Manufacturer of coatings/adhesives/motion control · North Carolina

LORD Corporation - Cary

Cary, NC · ~346 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LORD Corporation - Cary runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Manufacturer of coatings/adhesives/motion control workplace, earning a grade A.

LORD Corporation - Cary: 0.1 TCR = 30% of Manufacturer of coatings/adhesives/motion control BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LORD Corporation - Cary safety composite

LORD Corporation - Cary scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

LORD Corporation - Cary held a steady TCR band

LORD Corporation - Cary's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.3 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541715 · Cary, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P81
  • PHOTO LORD Corporation - HQ
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~346 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LORD Corporation - HQ (0.0 TCR gap)

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LORD Corporation - Cary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LORD Corporation - Cary averages 0.1 TCR (30% of the Manufacturer of coatings/adhesives/motion control BLS benchmark).

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

LORD Corporation - Cary TCR series: 2023=0.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 0.5

Where LORD Corporation - Cary falls in its industry

47 Manufacturer of coatings/adhes establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
LORD Corporation - Cary (346 employees, TCR 0.1) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 232 employees and a TCR of 0.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 05,00010,00015,00020,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate LORD Corporation - Cary
LORD Corporation - Cary (346 employees, TCR 0.1) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 232 employees and a TCR of 0.9

LORD Corporation - Cary has more employees than the Manufacturer of coatings/adhesives/motio median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.3 0.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541715 · NC · Cary

47 Manufacturer of coatings/adhesives/motion control employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 187 employers in Cary, 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 LORD Corporation - HQ 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aurora Flight Sciences Massachusett 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Axiom Space 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3M Austin Business Center 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Burford Construction Florida Statewide Operations 346 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5292 346 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 515 346 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1666 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary 3,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR WakeMed Cary Hospital 1,750 FTE
CITY-NEAR SERO-SOUTHEAST RESERVATIONS OFFICE 1,324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary - 305 Gregson Drive 883 FTE
NAT-TCR Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Howmet Aerospace Whitehall Operations - HRC Complex 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Estee Lauder - Research Park 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Valero Bill Greehey Refinery West Plant 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Douglas Dynamics, aka Western Products 346 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Gabriel Site 346 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kimberly Clark Corp. Loudon 346 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans 346 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. 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.