Furniture frames, wood, manufacturing · North Carolina

Plant 5

Lenoir, NC · ~64 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plant 5 runs at 313% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture frames, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Plant 5: 10.3 TCR = 313% of Furniture frames, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plant 5 safety composite

Plant 5 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.7 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

−1.5

2016→2021

Plant 5 injury rate improved

Plant 5's TCR fell 1.5 from 11.0 in 2016 to 9.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 18.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.0 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=18.0 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=9.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337215 · Lenoir, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 313% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #15/15
  • PHOTO Kendall Howard
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kendall Howard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plant 5 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plant 5 averages 10.3 TCR (313% of the Furniture frames, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plant 5 TCR series: 2016=11 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=18 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=9.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Plant 5 falls in its industry

231 Furniture frames, wood, manufa establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 15 Furniture frames, wood, manufa employers in North Carolina.

Plant 5 (64 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Plant 5
Plant 5 (64 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Plant 5 has fewer employees than the Furniture frames, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2021 9.5 5.7 5 0 0
2020 5.6 1.9 3 0 0
2019 10.7 4.6 6 1 0
2018 18.0 5.5 11 2 0
2017 7.1 4.3 4 1 0
2016 11.0 5.5 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337215 · NC · Lenoir

231 Furniture frames, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Lenoir, 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 Kendall Howard 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AD-Moorefield 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR G&W Display Fixtures 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.B.White Inc. 2011 Eagle Rd. 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agrarian Inc 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilmington Eastern Region Office 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Randolph Electric Membership Corporation 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apex Operations Center 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caldwell Memorial Hospital 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR HHG Lenoir Upholstery Plant 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC. 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caldwell County Government 451 FTE
NAT-TCR Eden Home Health - Reno 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR LP St Petersburg Pasadena, LLC--Gulfport 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Beaver Dam Assisted Living, LLC 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Hyannis 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 021 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Werner Enterprises/SPIOH Terminal 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Werner Enterprises/Joliet IL Terminal 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scarborough Store 64 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.