Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing · North Carolina

Marcal Blue Ridge LLC

Conover, NC · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Marcal Blue Ridge LLC runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Marcal Blue Ridge LLC: 0.9 TCR = 26% of Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Marcal Blue Ridge LLC safety composite

Marcal Blue Ridge LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Marcal Blue Ridge LLC: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Marcal Blue Ridge LLC's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2023 to 1.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Conover, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 26% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #13/132
  • PHOTO Channell Commercial …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Channell Commercial MCA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Marcal Blue Ridge LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Marcal Blue Ridge LLC averages 0.9 TCR (26% of the Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Marcal Blue Ridge LLC TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Marcal Blue Ridge LLC falls in its industry

2,838 Packaging, plastics (e.g., bli establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 132 Packaging, plastics (e.g., bli employers in North Carolina.

Marcal Blue Ridge LLC (58 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Marcal Blue Ridge LLC
Marcal Blue Ridge LLC (58 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Marcal Blue Ridge LLC has fewer employees than the Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubb median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · NC · Conover

2,838 Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), 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 Channell Commercial MCA 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leeco Plastics 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland - 200 Challenger Dr. and Ancillary Resin Bldg 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oldcastle OPI - Poteau 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brookdale Lawndale Park 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE STANCIL PAINTING AND SERVICES, INC. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danby House 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Building Center Inc - Gastonia 58 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 702 Cape Girardeau 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ontario Warehouse 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Omega Engineering 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Willmar Office 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Coatings Inc. - Oshkosh 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Metal Powders 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Steel Service 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zeigler Kenosha Subaru 58 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.