Commercial Bakeries · North Carolina

Valdese Nc Plant

Valdese, NC · ~203 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valdese Nc Plant runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial Bakeries workplace, earning a grade A.

Valdese Nc Plant: 1.3 TCR = 38% of Commercial Bakeries BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valdese Nc Plant safety composite

Valdese Nc Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Valdese Nc Plant held a steady TCR band

Valdese Nc Plant's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.6 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=0.5 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Valdese, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #4/24
  • PHOTO Diana's Bakery Silve…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~203 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diana's Bakery Silver Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valdese Nc Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valdese Nc Plant averages 1.3 TCR (38% of the Commercial Bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Valdese Nc Plant TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=0.5 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Valdese Nc Plant falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial Bakeries establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 24 Commercial Bakeries employers in North Carolina.

Valdese Nc Plant (203 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Valdese Nc Plant
Valdese Nc Plant (203 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Valdese Nc Plant has more employees than the Commercial Bakeries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2023 1.7 0.9 4 0 0
2022 1.6 1.2 4 0 0
2020 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2019 1.9 0.5 3 1 0
2018 1.5 0.5 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.6 1.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · NC · Valdese

1,014 Commercial Bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Valdese, 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 Diana's Bakery Silver Street 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MMG Investments, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPRINGFIELD MO DEPOT 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lyon Bakery 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE State Utility Contractors Inc. 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE KBI Biopharma - Venture Center 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asheboro Bearing Plant 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton Corning (NCP) 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perkins Plant 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valdese Weavers (Main) 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saft America Inc. 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saft America Inc. , Valdese, NC 181 FTE
NAT-TCR 086-Anthony/Antonio St 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Prime Ag Services Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Crown Laboratories, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jaguar Precision Machine 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omni Austin Hotel Downtown 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nursing Home 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE SUMMER STORM LLC dba Home instead Senior Care 203 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.