Manufacturing · North Carolina

Sutter East - Conover

Conover, NC · ~252 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sutter East - Conover runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sutter East - Conover: 6.2 TCR = 188% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sutter East - Conover safety composite

Sutter East - Conover scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Sutter East - Conover: 4.6 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2023

Sutter East - Conover's TCR rose 3.2 from 4.6 in 2019 to 7.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Conover, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 188% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #92/114
  • PHOTO Eaton Custom Seating…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~252 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eaton Custom Seating LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sutter East - Conover in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sutter East - Conover averages 6.2 TCR (188% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sutter East - Conover TCR series: 2019=4.6 · 2023=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Sutter East - Conover falls in its industry

300 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #92 safest of 114 Manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Sutter East - Conover (252 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Sutter East - Conover
Sutter East - Conover (252 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Sutter East - Conover has more employees than the Manufacturing median and a higher 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
2023 7.8 5.2 3 0 0
2019 4.6 4.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Conover

300 Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 95 employers in Conover, 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 Eaton Custom Seating LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 15 Hildebran 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albany Industries - Pontotoc 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cisco Brothers Prod 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seiren North America, LLC 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pratt (Jet Corr), Inc. 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCFI Polyurethanes 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mooresville FG 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zenith - Conover 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4224 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4224 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2510 Conover Folding 309 FTE
NAT-TCR Everlan Johnson City, LLC 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Oshkosh Manufacturing, LLC 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Longhini Sausage 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Franklin Building Supply - Fruitland 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crothall Laundry Services - Phoenix 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zipp 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Roll Forming LLC 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landscape Construction 252 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: 2023, 2019. 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.