Tobacco stemming and redrying · North Carolina

Universal Leaf North America/Nash

Nashville, NC · ~458 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Universal Leaf North America/Nash runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tobacco stemming and redrying workplace, earning a grade C.

Universal Leaf North America/Nash: 3.6 TCR = 110% of Tobacco stemming and redrying BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Universal Leaf North America/Nash safety composite

Universal Leaf North America/Nash scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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 3.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Universal Leaf North America/Nash: 3.9 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Universal Leaf North America/Nash's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.9 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Nashville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 110% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #17/17
  • PHOTO American Snuff Compa…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 123 inj
  • SIZE ~458 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Snuff Company-Memphis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Universal Leaf North America/Nash in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Universal Leaf North America/Nash averages 3.6 TCR (110% of the Tobacco stemming and redrying BLS benchmark).

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

Universal Leaf North America/Nash TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Universal Leaf North America/Nash falls in its industry

53 Tobacco stemming and redrying establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #17 safest of 17 Tobacco stemming and redrying employers in North Carolina.

Universal Leaf North America/Nash (458 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 Universal Leaf North America/Nash
Universal Leaf North America/Nash (458 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Universal Leaf North America/Nash has more employees than the Tobacco stemming and redrying median and a higher 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
2024 4.3 2.6 15 0 0
2023 3.1 1.0 12 0 0
2022 5.7 5.7 22 0 0
2021 3.6 2.2 13 0 0
2020 2.8 2.3 11 0 0
2019 2.2 1.2 11 0 0
2018 3.3 2.3 17 0 0
2016 3.9 3.0 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · NC · Nashville

53 Tobacco stemming and redrying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 30 employers in Nashville, 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-Memphis 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Snuff Company (Clarksville) 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park 500 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond MC - JMC 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE NC-KANNA01 458 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4652-Atrium Health Behavioral Health - Charlotte (4652) 458 FTE
STATE-SIZE Catalent Greenville NC 457 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Emergency Vehicle 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cavalier Homes of NC 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4459 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4459 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farming 150 FTE
NAT-TCR Apples (Elyria) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at University New Haven 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dart Warehouse Corporation - DFWI 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Humble 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trejo Labor Service, LLC 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice Maryland - 0640 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE BG - Holley Inc. 458 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.