Furniture, wood household-type, not upholstered (except TV and radio housings, and sewing machine cabinets), manufacturing · North Carolina

Plant 03

Lexington, NC · ~78 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plant 03 runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Furniture, wood household-type, not upholstered (except TV and radio housings, and sewing machine cabinets), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Plant 03: 4.5 TCR = 138% of Furniture, wood household-type, not upholstered (except TV and radio housings, and sewing machine cabinets), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plant 03 safety composite

Plant 03 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

Plant 03: 2.9 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Plant 03's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.9 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337122 · Lexington, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/24
  • PHOTO THE FURNITURE GUILD
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: THE FURNITURE GUILD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plant 03 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plant 03 averages 4.5 TCR (138% of the Furniture, wood household-type, not upholstered (except TV and radio housings, and sewing machine cabinets), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plant 03 TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=4 · 2020=7.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Plant 03 falls in its industry

130 Furniture, wood household-type establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 24 Furniture, wood household-type employers in North Carolina.

Plant 03 (78 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Plant 03
Plant 03 (78 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Plant 03 has more employees than the Furniture, wood household-type, not upho median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 8.9 8.9 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.8 1.3 2 4 0
2019 4.0 3.2 5 0 0
2018 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2017 6.7 1.9 2 5 0
2016 2.9 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337122 · NC · Lexington

130 Furniture, wood household-type, not upholstered (except TV and radio housings, and sewing machine cabinets), 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 THE FURNITURE GUILD 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wise Company-Savannah 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wyrmwood Gaming 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grantsville Facility 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kings Mountain Generation Support Facility 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Ridge Electric Corporate Office 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City location 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ground Thunder Construction 78 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 Monongahela Foodland 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Parks - Operations 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LTX 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Key Dies Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Star Wipers- Newark 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plum Point Energy Station 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keokuk Hills Beef Company LLC 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Most, Inc. 78 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.