Cigarettes manufacturing · North Carolina

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company

Oxford, NC · ~169 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cigarettes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Cigarettes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company safety composite

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.1

2016→2021

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company injury rate improved

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company's TCR fell 1.1 from 1.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.1 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Oxford, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/17
  • PHOTO J.C. Newman Cigar Co…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J.C. Newman Cigar Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Cigarettes manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company falls in its industry

53 Cigarettes manufacturing establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 17 Cigarettes manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company (169 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company
Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company (169 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company has more employees than the Cigarettes manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.5 0.7 2 0 0
2019 2.9 2.1 4 0 0
2018 3.8 3.8 6 0 0
2017 3.5 2.9 6 0 0
2016 1.1 0.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · NC · Oxford

53 Cigarettes manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Oxford, 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 J.C. Newman Cigar Company 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swisher International 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASC Taylor Brothers 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nat Sherman - Greensboro, NC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jones-Onslow Electric Membership Corporation (Jacksonville) 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Pork Company II 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington Finishing Plant 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evonik Superabsorber LLC 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Revlon Consumer Products Corp 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR Revlon 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oxford NC Plant 1,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granville County 319 FTE
NAT-TCR EWR 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vivian Healthcare Center 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR GS Plastics Optics 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sewell Audi of North Houston 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE OCS Logistics 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE 01 WA- Preston 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE OR-Sherwood OTC 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE School District of Phillips 169 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.