PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING · North Carolina

USA NC Sanford Plant

Sanford, NC · ~81 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

USA NC Sanford Plant runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING workplace, earning a grade D.

USA NC Sanford Plant: 5.9 TCR = 178% of PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

USA NC Sanford Plant safety composite

USA NC Sanford Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−10.5

2020→2022

USA NC Sanford Plant injury rate improved

USA NC Sanford Plant's TCR fell 10.5 from 10.5 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.5 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Sanford, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/23
  • PHOTO Smith Paint Products
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smith Paint Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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USA NC Sanford Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows USA NC Sanford Plant averages 5.9 TCR (178% of the PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING BLS benchmark).

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

USA NC Sanford Plant TCR series: 2020=10.5 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where USA NC Sanford Plant falls in its industry

530 PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURIN establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 23 PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURIN employers in North Carolina.

USA NC Sanford Plant (81 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate USA NC Sanford Plant
USA NC Sanford Plant (81 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

USA NC Sanford Plant has more employees than the PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.1 7.1 5 0 0
2020 10.5 10.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · NC · Sanford

530 PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 121 employers in Sanford, 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 Smith Paint Products 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TMS Manufacturing Co. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ozark Materials, LLC 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Battleboro Ag Partnership 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Concord Electric 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fayetteville Resource Center PNG 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Gas Services, LLC South Carolina Statewide Operations 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coty US LLC 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pentair Sanford Hawkins Ave 937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanford, NC 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pentair Water Pool and Spa 768 FTE
NAT-TCR Carle Foundation Hospital 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HG174 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cubby Oil 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 020325-Anc-Main Office Sta 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Auberge at Bee Cave 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE MDF Partners Ltd. d/b/a J & J ROOFING COMPANY 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal CG -Mazomanie CG 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2967-MA53 81 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.