Furniture (except wood, metal, upholstered) indoor and outdoor household-type, manufacturing · North Carolina

Valdese Plant

Valdese, NC · ~102 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valdese Plant runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Furniture (except wood, metal, upholstered) indoor and outdoor household-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Valdese Plant: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Furniture (except wood, metal, upholstered) indoor and outdoor household-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valdese Plant safety composite

Valdese Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−2.2

2016→2019

Valdese Plant injury rate improved

Valdese Plant's TCR fell 2.2 from 5.6 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2019=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337125 · Valdese, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK P43
  • PHOTO Fibertec Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fibertec Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Valdese Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valdese Plant averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Furniture (except wood, metal, upholstered) indoor and outdoor household-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Valdese Plant TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2019=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Valdese Plant falls in its industry

14 Furniture (except wood, metal, establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Valdese Plant (102 employees, TCR 4.5) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 4.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate GrosfillexDorel Juvenile GroupDiono, LLCMills CompanyBritax Child Safety IncEmpire Fibreglass Products, Inc.Valdese Plant
Valdese Plant (102 employees, TCR 4.5) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Valdese Plant has more employees than the Furniture (except wood, metal, upholster median and a higher 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
2019 3.4 2.3 3 0 0
2016 5.6 4.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337125 · NC · Valdese

14 Furniture (except wood, metal, upholstered) indoor and outdoor household-type, manufacturing 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 Fibertec Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mills Company 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Casual Plastics LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Fibreglass Products, Inc. 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charlotte Surgery Center Museum Campus 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE CVP - TVRH Durham 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2253-N0726 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lumberton Health and Rehabilitation Center 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perkins Plant 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valdese Weavers (Main) 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saft America Inc. 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR VALDESE NC PLANT 203 FTE
NAT-TCR RCX Colorado 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Darien Lake Holdings, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grantsville Facility 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Four Tribes 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Maintenance Airports Group Inc 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE MacLean Highline Sweetwater 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alvada Construction Inc 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cai -- Ocean View 102 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: 2019, 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.