Employer · North Carolina

Rutherfordton, Nc

Rutherfordton, NC · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rutherfordton, Nc runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

Rutherfordton, Nc: 1.7 TCR = 51% of industry BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rutherfordton, Nc safety composite

Rutherfordton, Nc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Rutherfordton, Nc: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Rutherfordton, Nc's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Rutherfordton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/61
  • PHOTO International Paper,…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper, Mt Carmel, PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rutherfordton, Nc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rutherfordton, Nc averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Rutherfordton, Nc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Rutherfordton, Nc falls in its industry

1,338 industry establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 61 industry employers in North Carolina.

Rutherfordton, Nc (36 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Rutherfordton, Nc
Rutherfordton, Nc (36 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Rutherfordton, Nc has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2022 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.7 2.3 2 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2019 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · NC · Rutherfordton

1,338 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Rutherfordton, 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 International Paper, Mt Carmel, PA 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR jaf converters 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAN LORENZO, CA THARCO 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CorrChoice LLC 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Butterball Hatchery # 1 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Carolina Farms (CV) 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yadkin 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgecombe Genco, LLC. 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rutherford Regional Medical Center 438 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rutherfordton 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aallied Die Casting 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parton Lumber Company 142 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0882 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mahoning 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Border States Electric - Sioux Falls 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valley Forge 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE HDS-Berkeley 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE YBC - Berlin Lumber Co. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE AGE Belton Plant 36 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: 2022, 2021, 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.