Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing · North Carolina

Plant 6

Lenoir, NC · ~180 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plant 6 runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Plant 6: 4.4 TCR = 134% of Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plant 6 safety composite

Plant 6 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

Plant 6: 4.8 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2021

Plant 6's TCR rose 0.9 from 4.8 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Lenoir, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 134% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #64/114
  • PHOTO Bassett Furniture In…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bassett Furniture Industries of NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plant 6 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plant 6 averages 4.4 TCR (134% of the Furniture, household-type, upholstered 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 6 TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Plant 6 falls in its industry

300 Furniture, household-type, uph establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #64 safest of 114 Furniture, household-type, uph employers in North Carolina.

Plant 6 (180 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 6
Plant 6 (180 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Plant 6 has more employees than the Furniture, household-type, upholstered 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
2021 5.7 1.9 9 0 0
2020 5.6 2.8 8 0 0
2019 3.7 1.9 6 0 0
2018 2.3 2.3 4 0 0
2017 4.5 1.1 6 2 0
2016 4.8 3.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Lenoir

300 Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, 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 Bassett Furniture Industries of NC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TB Arhaus, LLC - Plant 2 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #6 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR C.R. Laine Furniture 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aqua North Carolina 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hickory Spring Plant 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Textron Specialized Vehicles - Charlotte 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Statesville Mold Plant 180 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 Building 3 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Palm Beach Grading, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohio 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijers (WC USX MEI) 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brightwater Retirement, LLC 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atkins Nuclear Secured - Isotek 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primoris Services Corporation- Equipment West 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Knox Home Health Agency 180 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.