Fabric finishing · North Carolina

550- Burlington Finishing Plant

Burlington, NC · ~160 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

550- Burlington Finishing Plant runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fabric finishing workplace, earning a grade A.

550- Burlington Finishing Plant: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Fabric finishing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

550- Burlington Finishing Plant safety composite

550- Burlington Finishing Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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)
B 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

Rising injury rate

550- Burlington Finishing Plant: 1.1 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2018

550- Burlington Finishing Plant's TCR rose 1.8 from 1.1 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313310 · Burlington, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #9/32
  • PHOTO Milliken and Company…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Milliken and Company-Longleaf Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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550- Burlington Finishing Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 550- Burlington Finishing Plant averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Fabric finishing BLS benchmark).

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

550- Burlington Finishing Plant TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where 550- Burlington Finishing Plant falls in its industry

166 Fabric finishing establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 32 Fabric finishing employers in North Carolina.

550- Burlington Finishing Plant (160 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 550- Burlington Finishing Plant
550- Burlington Finishing Plant (160 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2

550- Burlington Finishing Plant has more employees than the Fabric finishing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2018 2.9 1.7 5 0 0
2017 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 1.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313310 · NC · Burlington

166 Fabric finishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 148 employers in Burlington, 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 Milliken and Company-Longleaf Plant 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR twenty2 wallpaper + textiles 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fineline Graphics 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crypton LLC 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE US Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Inc. 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Mt Gilead 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Profile Products 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR National OnDemand, Inc 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Twin Lakes Community 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR York Road 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Retirement Ministries of Alamance County 373 FTE
NAT-TCR 420 Location 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wellington, TX 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Iowa Falls Operating 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR StandardAero San Antonio 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heartland Health Care Center - Ft. Myers 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manor Care Health Services - West Reading North 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linc 0371 (Smyrna - F) 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chassix - Stevensville 160 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.