House plant growing · North Carolina

Van Wingerden International

Mills River, NC · ~184 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Wingerden International runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical House plant growing workplace, earning a grade C.

Van Wingerden International: 4.9 TCR = 109% of House plant growing BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Wingerden International safety composite

Van Wingerden International scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.1

2016→2024

Van Wingerden International injury rate improved

Van Wingerden International's TCR fell 4.1 from 6.1 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.1 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Mills River, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 109% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Costa Layman, LLC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 77 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Costa Layman, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van Wingerden International in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Wingerden International averages 4.9 TCR (109% of the House plant growing BLS benchmark).

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

Van Wingerden International TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Van Wingerden International falls in its industry

166 House plant growing establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 House plant growing employers in North Carolina.

Van Wingerden International (184 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Van Wingerden International
Van Wingerden International (184 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Van Wingerden International has more employees than the House plant growing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2024 1.9 1.0 2 0 0
2023 5.7 3.8 6 0 0
2022 3.8 2.3 5 0 0
2021 3.8 0.6 6 0 0
2020 7.3 6.1 12 0 0
2019 6.5 4.5 10 0 0
2018 4.8 0.9 11 0 0
2017 4.3 2.1 10 0 0
2016 6.1 2.4 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · NC · Mills River

166 House plant growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 33 employers in Mills River, 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 Costa Layman, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emerald Coast Growers LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Costa Delray, LLC 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Preferred Electric Company Inc 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Spinning Mills, Inc Plant 3 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burnsville Plant 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Champion Home Builders 023 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linamar Light Metals-MR 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mills River 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac Mills River 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac, Inc 259 FTE
NAT-TCR Bosk Corporation 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CV Tool Company 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Augustine Renaissance 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Primrose Retirement Community of Wausau 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE UT Health Henderson 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renaissance Seattle Hotel 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Futures Recovery Healthcare 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Hearthstone 184 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, 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.