Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing · North Carolina

Upholstery

Morganton, NC · ~83 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Upholstery runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Upholstery: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Upholstery safety composite

Upholstery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Upholstery: 2.2 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2018

Upholstery's TCR rose 3.1 from 2.2 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Morganton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #48/114
  • PHOTO Hancock & Moore Plan…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hancock & Moore Plant 3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Upholstery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Upholstery averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Upholstery TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Upholstery falls in its industry

300 Furniture, household-type, uph establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 114 Furniture, household-type, uph employers in North Carolina.

Upholstery (83 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Upholstery
Upholstery (83 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Upholstery has fewer employees than the Furniture, household-type, upholstered o median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 5.3 1.3 4 0 0
2017 3.8 2.5 3 0 0
2016 2.2 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Morganton

300 Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 106 employers in Morganton, 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 Hancock & Moore Plant 3 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LT Designs Plant # 7 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Furniture and Cabinets, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advance NC Facility 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE ROCKWELL FARMS INC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gastonia Operations Center 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Greensboro 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh-Durham Call Center 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEX-BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL 3,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals, Inc. 1,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0090-BRHC Hospitals 1,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broughton Hospital 1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR Reyes Auotmotive Group 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 38 Rapids Energy 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5155 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DCPC Channahon 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lincoln Electric Cutting Systems, Inc. 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mastercare, Inc 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Controlled Environment Certification Services Inc. 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE TMD 83 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.