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

Plant 9

Name: Plant 9 Workplace Safety Data
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Shelby, NC · ~141 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Plant 9 runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Plant 9: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plant 9 safety composite

Plant 9 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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).

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

Plant 9 held a steady TCR band

Plant 9's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.6 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.6 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

DART 1.8 DART
RANK #28/114
PHOTO Plant # 5
BOOK 6y book
INJ 18 inj
SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plant # 5 (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8
Plant # 5

2.7
King Hickory F

2.7
Creative Leath

2.7
Delta Furnitur

2.7

What this shows Plant 9 averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Plant 9 TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Plant 9 falls in its industry

300 Furniture, household-type, uph establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 114 Furniture, household-type, uph employers in North Carolina.

Plant 9 (141 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 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
2021	2.7	1.8	3	0
2020	0.9	0.0	1	0
2019	4.8	2.4	4	2
2018	2.9	2.1	3	1
2017	2.6	1.3	4	0
2016	2.6	0.7	3	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Shelby

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 · 100 employers in Shelby, 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	Plant # 5	LENOIR, NC	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	King Hickory Furniture Company	HICKORY, NC	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Creative Leather frurniture INC.	CHANDLER, AZ	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Delta Furniture Manufacturing	PONTOTOC, MS	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Clancy & Theys Construction Company - Raleigh, NC	RALEIGH	141 FTE
STATE-SIZE	General Manpower LLC	CHAPELL HILL	141 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NCH	HENDERSON	141 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Veneer Technologies Inc.	NEWPORT	141 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1111-Atrium Health Cleveland (1111)	Shelby	1,174 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6070	Shelby	1,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0080-Atrium Health Cleveland	Shelby	1,158 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0080-CHS Cleveland	Shelby	1,093 FTE
NAT-TCR	Meridian Wildlife Services, LLC	Christiansburg, VA	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Havre de Grace, MD Facility	Havre De Grace, MD	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Welch Packaging Lexington	Lexington, TN	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Keller's Creamery - Winnsboro	Winnsboro, TX	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Werner Enterprises/ATLGA Terminal	Lithia Springs, GA	141 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pheasants Forever, Inc	St. Paul, MN	141 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dot Transportation, Inc.- AZ	Bullhead, AZ	141 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pendleton Health and Rehabilitation Center	Mystic, CT	141 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.

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