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

Plant # 9

Name: Plant # 9 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Conover, NC · ~267 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Plant # 9 runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Upholstered furniture, household-type, on frames of any material, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Plant # 9: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Upholstered furniture, household-type, on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plant # 9 safety composite

Plant # 9 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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 # 9: 5.8 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2020

Plant # 9's TCR rose 2.2 from 5.8 in 2016 to 8.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

DART 5.9 DART
RANK #86/114
PHOTO Kellex Seating
BOOK 5y book
INJ 65 inj
SIZE ~267 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kellex Seating (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kellex Seating

5.8
GAR PRODUCTS

5.8
This site

5.7
Kellex Seating

5.7
Jessica Charle

5.7

What this shows Plant # 9 averages 5.7 TCR (173% of the Upholstered furniture, household-type, on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Plant # 9 TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Plant # 9 falls in its industry

300 Upholstered furniture, househo establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #86 safest of 114 Upholstered furniture, househo employers in North Carolina.

Plant # 9 (267 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Plant # 9 has more employees than the Upholstered furniture, household-type, o median and a higher 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
2020	8.0	5.9	18	1
2019	5.8	5.0	11	3
2018	4.5	4.1	11	1
2017	4.6	2.8	12	1
2016	5.8	3.8	13	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Conover

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 · 95 employers in Conover, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Kellex Seating	VALDESE, NC	5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kellex Seating Tupelo	TUPELO, MS	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	GAR PRODUCTS	LAKEWOOD, NJ	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Jessica Charles	HIGH POINT, NC	5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Alamance Foods - Worth Street Plant	BURLINGTON	267 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Harland Clarke High Point	HIGH POINT	267 FTE
STATE-SIZE	KBI Biopharma - Patriot Park	DURHAM	267 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Zero Waste Recycling	CHARLOTTE	267 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Zenith - Conover	Conover	409 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 4224	Conover	369 FTE
CITY-NEAR	4224	Conover	327 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2510 Conover Folding	Conover	309 FTE
NAT-TCR	Meijer	Marion, OH	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Houweling's	Camarillo, CA	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kenworth Albany	Albany, NY	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	EATELCORP - Vision Communications	Larose, LA	5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Blount Memorial Physician's Group	Maryville, TN	267 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MMP - 887 Congress St	Portland, ME	267 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Marshall Leupke Community Center	Vancouver, WA	267 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Aerojet Rocketdyne - Orange	Culpeper, VA	267 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.