Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · North Carolina

Vanguard - Morganton

Morganton, NC · ~83 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vanguard - Morganton runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Vanguard - Morganton: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vanguard - Morganton safety composite

Vanguard - Morganton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

−6.8

2023→2024

Vanguard - Morganton injury rate improved

Vanguard - Morganton's TCR fell 6.8 from 6.8 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #40/114
  • PHOTO Snyder Paper - Hicko…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Snyder Paper - Hickory Cushion (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vanguard - Morganton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vanguard - Morganton averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vanguard - Morganton TCR series: 2023=6.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Vanguard - Morganton falls in its industry

300 Household-type furniture, upho establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #40 safest of 114 Household-type furniture, upho employers in North Carolina.

Vanguard - Morganton (83 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Vanguard - Morganton
Vanguard - Morganton (83 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Vanguard - Morganton has fewer employees than the Household-type furniture, upholstered, m 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 6.8 5.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Morganton

300 Household-type furniture, upholstered, 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 Snyder Paper - Hickory Cushion 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 5 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaasco Inc. d.b.a. Kaas Tailored 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flexsteel Industries- Dublin Division 3.4 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 Carton Brewing 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeside Mechanical Contractors, Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of East Ridge 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Refresco Beverages 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Washington State Department of Health (Spokane) 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sdf-Ground Ops 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gethmann Construction Co., Inc. 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE JVIS USA LLC Shelby I Headquarters 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: 2024, 2023. 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.