Upholstered furniture, household-type, on frames of any material, manufacturing · North Carolina

Plant # 1

Newton, NC · ~220 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plant # 1 runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Upholstered furniture, household-type, on frames of any material, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Plant # 1: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Upholstered furniture, household-type, on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plant # 1 safety composite

Plant # 1 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

−1.5

2016→2020

Plant # 1 injury rate improved

Plant # 1's TCR fell 1.5 from 3.0 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Newton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #33/114
  • PHOTO LaZBoy
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LaZBoy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plant # 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plant # 1 averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Upholstered furniture, household-type, on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plant # 1 TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=4 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Plant # 1 falls in its industry

300 Upholstered furniture, househo establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 114 Upholstered furniture, househo employers in North Carolina.

Plant # 1 (220 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Plant # 1
Plant # 1 (220 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Plant # 1 has more employees than the Upholstered furniture, household-type, o median and a lower 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
2020 1.5 1.0 2 1 0
2019 2.4 1.9 4 1 0
2018 4.0 1.8 9 0 0
2017 4.8 2.2 9 2 0
2016 3.0 1.5 3 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Newton

300 Upholstered furniture, household-type, on frames of any material, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 83 employers in Newton, 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 LaZBoy 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeshore 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vanguard Main VGM 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Interiors Furniture Company 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Brothers 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE OPW FCS 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elastic Therapy.LLC 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton NC DC 1,644 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton DC 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN ePowertrain Newton 1,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Driveline Newton LLC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Truck Country - Minnesota 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer #254 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Clovis Healthcare and Rehab 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital (Company 30) 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Windsor Factory 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commerce Production 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE ConnectionsAZ-UPC 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Chanhassen 220 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: 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.