Starch glues manufacturing · North Carolina

Tailored Chemical Plant 1

Hickory, NC · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tailored Chemical Plant 1 runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Starch glues manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Tailored Chemical Plant 1: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Starch glues manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tailored Chemical Plant 1 safety composite

Tailored Chemical Plant 1 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−64.2

2018→2020

Tailored Chemical Plant 1 injury rate improved

Tailored Chemical Plant 1's TCR fell 64.2 from 65.7 in 2018 to 1.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 65.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=65.7 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/12
  • PHOTO Tremco Incorporated …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tremco Incorporated - Mameco Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tailored Chemical Plant 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tailored Chemical Plant 1 averages 1.5 TCR (46% 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 Plant 1 TCR series: 2018=65.7 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Tailored Chemical Plant 1 falls in its industry

287 Starch glues manufacturing establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #1 safest of 12 Starch glues manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Tailored Chemical Plant 1 (41 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Plant 1
Tailored Chemical Plant 1 (41 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Tailored Chemical Plant 1 has fewer employees than the Starch glues manufacturing median and a lower 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
2020 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 65.7 65.7 5 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 Tremco Incorporated - Mameco Plant 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adhesive Packaging Specialties 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASC - Philadelphia 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardex, L.P. Dallas 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jeff Barnes LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sandhill Turf 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewiston NC Operation 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hendersonville Operations Center 41 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 GC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Drive Practices 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Arlington, MA 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stemmle Plumbing Repair Inc - Midlothian VA 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vermeer Sales & Service of Central Illinois, Inc. - Goodfield 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE DCF 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Star Scrap Metal Co. 41 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: 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.