Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · North Carolina

RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC.

Hudson, NC · ~293 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC.: 4.6 TCR = 138% of Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. safety composite

RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−2.0

2016→2018

RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. injury rate improved

RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC.'s TCR fell 2.0 from 4.6 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.6 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Hudson, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 138% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #16/23
  • PHOTO Tiger Drylac USA, INC.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~293 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tiger Drylac USA, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. averages 4.6 TCR (138% of the Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. falls in its industry

530 Industrial product finishes an establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 23 Industrial product finishes an employers in North Carolina.

RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. (293 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC.
RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. (293 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. has more employees than the Industrial product finishes and coatings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2018 2.6 1.9 8 0 0
2017 6.5 4.0 18 0 0
2016 4.6 3.2 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · NC · Hudson

530 Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 15 employers in Hudson, 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 Tiger Drylac USA, INC. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abcor Partners LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Point 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemionics 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6728-00030023-30 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flowers Baking Company 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pratt (Jet Corr.) Inc. 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ardagh Glass Inc Wilson 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR RPM Wood Finishes Group, Inc., Hudson, NC 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7296 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7296 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR 24 Hudson OPP 91 FTE
NAT-TCR Kardoes Rubber, a HEXPOL Co 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Milwaukee - 515 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rescar - Loc#540 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Varick Campus 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ozarks Community Hospital 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Pleasant - 100 Distribution Circle 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skanska Kiewit - SKK Bayonne Bridge 293 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: 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.