Employer · North Carolina

318 - Gastonia

Gastonia, NC · ~98 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

318 - Gastonia runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

318 - Gastonia: 3.2 TCR = 95% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

318 - Gastonia safety composite

318 - Gastonia scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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)
D 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−1.9

2016→2022

318 - Gastonia injury rate improved

318 - Gastonia's TCR fell 1.9 from 1.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Gastonia, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 95% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #44/68
  • PHOTO 557 Westchase
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 557 Westchase (0.0 TCR gap)

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318 - Gastonia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 318 - Gastonia averages 3.2 TCR (95% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

318 - Gastonia TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 318 - Gastonia falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 68 industry employers in North Carolina.

318 - Gastonia (98 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 318 - Gastonia
318 - Gastonia (98 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

318 - Gastonia has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.3 2.1 3 0 0
2018 8.6 4.3 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · NC · Gastonia

2,917 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 557 Westchase 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1066 West Bloomfield 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 32 - Lake Worth 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 525 - Murfreesboro 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEMC - Hillsborough 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSNC Corporate Warehouse 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hiller Concord 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR 525 - Murfreesboro 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 32 - Lake Worth 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 606 - Temecula 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Niethammer Family LLC 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 361 - Carrollton 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 158 - Sandusky 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 518 - Hamilton Mill 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 545 - Steeplechase 98 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.