Polyurethane foam products manufacturing · North Carolina

McKenzie Creative Brands

Albemarle, NC · ~124 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McKenzie Creative Brands runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Polyurethane foam products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

McKenzie Creative Brands: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Polyurethane foam products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McKenzie Creative Brands safety composite

McKenzie Creative Brands scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−2.1

2020→2024

McKenzie Creative Brands injury rate improved

McKenzie Creative Brands's TCR fell 2.1 from 5.3 in 2020 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.3 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Albemarle, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #30/39
  • PHOTO Verona Fab
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Verona Fab (0.0 TCR gap)

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McKenzie Creative Brands in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McKenzie Creative Brands averages 3.7 TCR (112% 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

McKenzie Creative Brands TCR series: 2020=5.3 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=3 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where McKenzie Creative Brands falls in its industry

474 Polyurethane foam products man establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #30 safest of 39 Polyurethane foam products man employers in North Carolina.

McKenzie Creative Brands (124 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 McKenzie Creative Brands
McKenzie Creative Brands (124 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

McKenzie Creative Brands has more employees than the Polyurethane foam products manufacturing median and a higher 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 3.1 2.1 3 0 0
2023 3.0 2.0 3 0 0
2022 1.7 0.8 2 0 0
2021 5.5 5.5 6 0 0
2020 5.3 3.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · NC · Albemarle

474 Polyurethane foam products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 55 employers in Albemarle, 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 Verona Fab 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LPCC-Fort Worth Rebond 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RFC PA 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harmony Cushion Company 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Western Region Operations Complex (Asheville) 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Grade 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benitez Electric INC 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1113-Atrium Health Stanly (1113) 555 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Stanly 546 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0040-CHS Stanly 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin Aircraft Tire Company 406 FTE
NAT-TCR Arrow Consultation Services 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Lockport 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 800 General & Admin 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Round Rock, TX 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gilbane Building Company San Jose 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corpus Christi Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henderson Johnson Co, Inc 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wayne Crouse, Inc. 124 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.