Veneer mills, hardwood · North Carolina

Veneer Tech

Newport, NC · ~126 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Veneer Tech runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Veneer mills, hardwood workplace, earning a grade F.

Veneer Tech: 8.1 TCR = 247% of Veneer mills, hardwood BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Veneer Tech safety composite

Veneer Tech scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Veneer Tech held a steady TCR band

Veneer Tech's TCR held near 0.0 from 7.9 in 2018 to 7.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.9 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321211 · Newport, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 247% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Fullerton Companies
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fullerton Companies (0.1 TCR gap)

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Veneer Tech in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Veneer Tech averages 8.1 TCR (247% of the Veneer mills, hardwood BLS benchmark).

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

Veneer Tech TCR series: 2018=7.9 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Veneer Tech falls in its industry

116 Veneer mills, hardwood establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Veneer mills, hardwood employers in North Carolina.

Veneer Tech (126 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Veneer Tech
Veneer Tech (126 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Veneer Tech has more employees than the Veneer mills, hardwood median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2020 7.8 7.0 10 0 0
2019 8.7 6.0 11 2 0
2018 7.9 7.1 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321211 · NC · Newport

116 Veneer mills, hardwood employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 19 employers in Newport, 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 Fullerton Companies 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Timber & Veneer 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR B & C Wood Components LLC 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Production 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Airtron Charlotte 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3870_7378 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 11 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Champion Home Builders-Laurinburg 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR Veneer Technologies Inc. 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waste Industries Central Coast 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7098 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7098 77 FTE
NAT-TCR Brook Warehousing Corporation Building 2 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dialyze Direct FL, LLC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 89 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bane Colonial LLC 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bird Incorporated dba CertainTeed Corporation 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE OPW Engineered Systems 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Manassas Health & Rehabilitation Center 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel Duval 126 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.