Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing · North Carolina

Piedmont Candy Company

Lexington, NC · ~37 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Piedmont Candy Company runs at 279% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Piedmont Candy Company: 11.7 TCR = 279% of Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Piedmont Candy Company safety composite

Piedmont Candy Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.2

2018→2024

Piedmont Candy Company injury rate improved

Piedmont Candy Company's TCR fell 8.2 from 13.6 in 2018 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 33.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=13.6 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=33.4 · 2022=9.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Lexington, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 279% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK P13
  • PHOTO MAIN GCC- E. Monumen…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MAIN GCC- E. Monument Street (0.1 TCR gap)

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Piedmont Candy Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Piedmont Candy Company averages 11.7 TCR (279% of the Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Piedmont Candy Company TCR series: 2018=13.6 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=33.4 · 2022=9.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 4.2

Where Piedmont Candy Company falls in its industry

123 Candy bars, nonchocolate, manu establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Piedmont Candy Company (37 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Piedmont Candy Company
Piedmont Candy Company (37 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Piedmont Candy Company has fewer employees than the Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 5.4 5.4 5 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 4 0 0
2022 9.9 7.0 6 1 0
2020 33.4 33.4 4 0 0
2019 3.7 2.5 3 0 0
2018 13.6 11.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · NC · Lexington

123 Candy bars, nonchocolate, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 120 employers in Lexington, 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 MAIN GCC- E. Monument Street 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Confections Michigan, LLC 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Confections New Mexico, LLC 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dr. John's 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAR Greenhouse LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Statesville Breeders 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan River CT/CC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE hep Petra, LLC 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Schools 3,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Government 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Windows & Door 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASCO Power Technologies 639 FTE
NAT-TCR IAC002 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Maintenance 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ocean Beach Peoples Organic Food Market 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Zpmc USA Nj 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Powder River Energy Corp. Sundance 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE K&M Tire Dallas 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alamo Interiors, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warehouse 2 37 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.