Containers, wood, manufacturing · North Carolina

Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC.

Salisbury, NC · ~181 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC. runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Containers, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC.: 1.6 TCR = 49% of Containers, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC. safety composite

Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−1.3

2016→2017

Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC. injury rate improved

Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC.'s TCR fell 1.3 from 2.3 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Salisbury, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 49% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #5/42
  • PHOTO McVantage Packaging …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McVantage Packaging - Tuscumbia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC. averages 1.6 TCR (49% of the Containers, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC. TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC. falls in its industry

952 Containers, wood, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 42 Containers, wood, manufacturin employers in North Carolina.

Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC. (181 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC.
Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC. (181 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC. has more employees than the Containers, wood, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2017 1.0 0.7 3 0 0
2016 2.3 1.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · NC · Salisbury

952 Containers, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 180 employers in Salisbury, 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 McVantage Packaging - Tuscumbia 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Pallet Co. Inc 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swift Creek Forest Products 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marshall Steam Station 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE State Utility Contractors, Inc. Monroe 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graphik Dimensions 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lyndon Steel, LLC 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSCEXC 1,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Rowan Medical Center 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rowan County Government 1,151 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLT1 973 FTE
NAT-TCR New York Location #04 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FH Paschen 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR D&S Hoist and Crane 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR K7 - Abington 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Economy Spring 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Everett (Waeve) 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ups E-Logistics/Elizabethtown (Kyeli) 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethel Home 181 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.