Starch glues manufacturing · North Carolina

Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3

Hickory, NC · ~49 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3 runs at 263% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Starch glues manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3: 8.7 TCR = 263% of Starch glues manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3 safety composite

Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3: 0.0 → 17.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 17.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2021

Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3's TCR rose 17.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 17.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 263% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO NECAL Corp
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NECAL Corp (0.3 TCR gap)

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Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3 averages 8.7 TCR (263% of the Starch glues manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3 TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=13.6 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=17 · BLS 3.3

Where Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3 falls in its industry

287 Starch glues manufacturing establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Starch glues manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3 (49 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3
Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3 (49 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Tailored Chemical Inc Plant 3 has fewer employees than the Starch glues manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 17.0 11.4 9 0 0
2020 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2019 13.6 6.8 4 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · NC · Hickory

287 Starch glues 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR NECAL Corp 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henkel Corporation - Brandon, SD 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSI 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR QEP Co., Inc. - Tolleson 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zackly Rite Farms 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Raleigh 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butterball Hatchery # 3 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matthews Operations Center 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Forest Lake Chrysler Dodge Jeep & Ram 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - Lafayette 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kamps Indianapolis Belmont Ave 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CRI/ROS 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE PAT355 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advisory/Executive Ogv. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayer Electric Supply Company, Inc. - Dothan 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Arlington 49 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. 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.