Furniture, household-type, upholstered o · North Carolina

Paladin Industries Inc

Name: Paladin Industries Inc Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hiddenite, NC · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Paladin Industries Inc runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture, household-type, upholstered o workplace, earning a grade F.

Paladin Industries Inc: 7.7 TCR = 232% of Furniture, household-type, upholstered o BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paladin Industries Inc safety composite

Paladin Industries Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Paladin Industries Inc: 6.8 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.22× in 2017

Paladin Industries Inc's TCR rose 1.8 from 6.8 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Hiddenite, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 232% of ind

DART 1.7 DART
RANK #104/114
PHOTO Vanguard Frame VGF
BOOK 2y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vanguard Frame VGF (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Paladin Industries Inc averages 7.7 TCR (232% of the Furniture, household-type, upholstered o BLS benchmark).

Paladin Industries Inc TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Paladin Industries Inc falls in its industry

300 Furniture, household-type, uph establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #104 safest of 114 Furniture, household-type, uph employers in North Carolina.

Paladin Industries Inc (80 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Paladin Industries Inc has fewer employees than the Furniture, household-type, upholstered o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2017	8.6	1.7	5	0	0
2016	6.8	0.0	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Hiddenite

300 Furniture, household-type, upholstered o employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 6 employers in Hiddenite, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Vanguard Frame VGF	CONOVER, NC	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Plant 1	CLEVELAND, TN	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division	FERDINAND, IN	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Best Home Furnishings/Recliner	FERDINAND, IN	7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Tri- Hishtil 808241	MILLS RIVER	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bentwood Farms Inc.	MONROE	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Davidson Water, Inc.	LEXINGTON	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Beam Construction Company, Inc.	CHERRYVILLE	80 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Craftmaster Furniture, Inc.	Hiddenite	373 FTE
CITY-NEAR	American Roller Bearing Company	Hiddenite	67 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Industrial Timber Hiddenite	Hiddenite	62 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hiddenite	Hiddenite	56 FTE
NAT-TCR	Manor Care Health Services - Arlington	Arlington, VA	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hollidaysburg Plant	Hollidaysburg, PA	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bahama Bay Resort - Caribe Cove	Davenport, FL	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mays Landing NJ Depot	Mays Landing, NJ	7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Excelsior Springs Nursing and Rehab LLC	Excelsior Springs, MO	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1730 LKQ/Keystone	Phoenix, AZ	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Communications Specialists, Inc.	Mechanisville, VA	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Atlantic Spring	Ringoes, NJ	80 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.