Tobacco products (e.g., chewing, smoking, snuff) manufacturing · North Carolina

Taylor Brothers

Winston-Salem, NC · ~220 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taylor Brothers runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tobacco products (e.g., chewing, smoking, snuff) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Taylor Brothers: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Tobacco products (e.g., chewing, smoking, snuff) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taylor Brothers safety composite

Taylor Brothers scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Taylor Brothers held a steady TCR band

Taylor Brothers's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.5 in 2016 to 0.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.5 · 2017=2.0 · 2018=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #7/17
  • PHOTO American Snuff Compa…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Snuff Company LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Taylor Brothers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taylor Brothers averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Tobacco products (e.g., chewing, smoking, snuff) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Taylor Brothers TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2017=2 · 2018=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Taylor Brothers falls in its industry

53 Tobacco products (e.g., chewin establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #7 safest of 17 Tobacco products (e.g., chewin employers in North Carolina.

Taylor Brothers (220 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Taylor Brothers
Taylor Brothers (220 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Taylor Brothers has more employees than the Tobacco products (e.g., chewing, smoking median and a lower 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
2018 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2017 2.0 1.0 4 0 0
2016 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · NC · Winston-Salem

53 Tobacco products (e.g., chewing, smoking, snuff) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 234 employers in Winston-Salem, 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 American Snuff Company LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Tobacco LLLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Factory 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scandinavian Tobacco Group 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE OPW FCS 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant # 1 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elastic Therapy.LLC 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center 4,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Budd Group Janitorial 4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds American Inc. Trade Marketing Services 2,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds Marketing Services Company 1,600 FTE
NAT-TCR Apache Corporation - Elk City 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GA099 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DJ Acquisition Management DBA Weco Manufacturing 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CA.SACRA.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chattanooga Offset 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE LiDestri Lee Rd. South 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE PHX - Airport United Airlines Offices 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE wli-Work Leads to Independence 220 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.