Full service restaurants · North Carolina

Mills River Taproom

Mills River, NC · ~170 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mills River Taproom runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Full service restaurants workplace, earning a grade F.

Mills River Taproom: 6.0 TCR = 201% of Full service restaurants BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mills River Taproom safety composite

Mills River Taproom scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Mills River Taproom held a steady TCR band

Mills River Taproom's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.1 in 2023 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.1 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · Mills River, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 201% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #13/18
  • PHOTO 1049-ENPHG-MORGANTOW…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1049-ENPHG-MORGANTOWN, WV (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mills River Taproom in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mills River Taproom averages 6.0 TCR (201% of the Full service restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Mills River Taproom TCR series: 2023=6.1 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.0

Where Mills River Taproom falls in its industry

1,091 Full service restaurants establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

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 18 Full service restaurants employers in North Carolina.

Mills River Taproom (170 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 Mills River Taproom
Mills River Taproom (170 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Mills River Taproom has more employees than the Full service restaurants median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 6.0 5.2 8 0 0
2023 6.1 6.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · NC · Mills River

1,091 Full service restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 33 employers in Mills River, 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 1049-ENPHG-MORGANTOWN, WV 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rancho Mirage 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1053-ENPHG-EDGEWOOD 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tavern 4&5 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Eastern, Inc 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clement Pappas NC LLC 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jacob Holm 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Auria Albemarle 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linamar Light Metals-MR 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mills River 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac Mills River 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac, Inc 259 FTE
NAT-TCR Orland Park 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennswood Village 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CLARO / PRT - Centro Operaciones Fajardo 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shelton Store 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Foundation Steel, LLC 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE CVG 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Univance Inc 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE MWC Regional Office 170 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.