Cornices, wood, manufacturing · North Carolina

RPM Wood Finishes Group

Name: RPM Wood Finishes Group Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hickory, NC · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

RPM Wood Finishes Group runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cornices, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

RPM Wood Finishes Group: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Cornices, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RPM Wood Finishes Group safety composite

RPM Wood Finishes Group scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

Rising injury rate

RPM Wood Finishes Group: 0.0 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

RPM Wood Finishes Group's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321918 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #1/16
PHOTO Houston TX Millwork …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Houston TX Millwork (Port NW) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metrie Distibu

0.6
This site

0.5
Houston TX Mil

0.5
Metrie Retail

0.5
Old World Mill

0.5

What this shows RPM Wood Finishes Group averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Cornices, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

RPM Wood Finishes Group TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1 · BLS 3.3

Where RPM Wood Finishes Group falls in its industry

317 Cornices, wood, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 16 Cornices, wood, manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

RPM Wood Finishes Group (90 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.9

RPM Wood Finishes Group has more employees than the Cornices, wood, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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	1.0	0.0	1	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321918 · NC · Hickory

317 Cornices, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, 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	Houston TX Millwork (Port NW)	HOUSTON, TX	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Metrie Retail - Baltimore	COLUMBIA, MD	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Old World Millworks	MAPLE PARK, IL	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Metrie Distibution - Chicago	NEW LENOX, IL	0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Allen Steam Station	BELMONT	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fayetteville Resource Center - PNG	FAYETTEVILLE	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	D.R. Horton, Inc. - Raleigh	MORRISVILLE	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NJR Group Inc.	ALBEMARLE	90 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory	2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Merchants Distributors LLC	Hickory	1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Frye Regional Medical Center	Hickory	1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center	Hickory	1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR	John A. Papalas & Co.	Lincoln Park, MI	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	460 Decatur Street SE	Atlanta, GA	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	102148 - Cove Point LNG Export Terminal	Lusby, MD	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Integra	Billerica, MA	0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	MidCo Inc	Burr Ridge, IL	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MaineGeneral Community Care - Gardiner	Gardiner, ME	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	OCY - Plymouth School Age/camp	Plymouth, MA	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Store 36814	Youngstown, OH	90 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. 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.