Upholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing · North Carolina

SF-Valdese

Valdese, NC · ~108 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SF-Valdese runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Upholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

SF-Valdese: 2.3 TCR = 68% of Upholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SF-Valdese safety composite

SF-Valdese scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

Rising injury rate

SF-Valdese: 1.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

SF-Valdese's TCR rose 2.5 from 1.0 in 2023 to 3.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #19/114
  • PHOTO Best Home Furnishing…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Best Home Furnishings/Paoli (0.0 TCR gap)

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SF-Valdese in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SF-Valdese averages 2.3 TCR (68% of the Upholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SF-Valdese TCR series: 2023=1 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where SF-Valdese falls in its industry

300 Upholstered furniture, househo establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 114 Upholstered furniture, househo employers in North Carolina.

SF-Valdese (108 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate SF-Valdese
SF-Valdese (108 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

SF-Valdese has fewer employees than the Upholstered furniture, household-type, c 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 Fatalities
2024 3.5 2.3 3 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Valdese

300 Upholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Valdese, 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 Best Home Furnishings/Paoli 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Furniture MFG. LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHSE 37 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edgecombe Furniture 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE County of Harnett-Public Utilities 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Samet Corporation - Charlotte 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seretta Construction Mid-Atlantic, LLC 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carrier Commercial Services (Charlotte) 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perkins Plant 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valdese Weavers (Main) 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saft America Inc. 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR VALDESE NC PLANT 203 FTE
NAT-TCR Cincinnati 10177 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross Construction Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AMESBURY-MA02 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Compactor Management Company, LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE High School 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rainbow Farms 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana Dimension, Inc. 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mulehead Growers LLC 108 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: 2024, 2023. 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.