Employer · North Carolina

7544_18398

Newton, NC · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

7544_18398 runs at 486% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

7544_18398: 16.0 TCR = 486% of industry BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

7544_18398 safety composite

7544_18398 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−14.5

2023→2024

7544_18398 injury rate improved

7544_18398's TCR fell 14.5 from 23.3 in 2023 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 23.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=23.3 · 2024=8.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321113 · Newton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.0 · 486% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #32/34
  • PHOTO Sierra Pacific Indus…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sierra Pacific Industries - Burney Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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7544_18398 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 7544_18398 averages 16.0 TCR (486% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

7544_18398 TCR series: 2023=23.3 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 3.3

Where 7544_18398 falls in its industry

905 industry establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 34 industry employers in North Carolina.

7544_18398 (23 employees, TCR 16.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 7544_18398
7544_18398 (23 employees, TCR 16.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.2

7544_18398 has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 8.8 8.8 2 0 0
2023 23.3 9.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321113 · NC · Newton

905 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 83 employers in Newton, 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 Sierra Pacific Industries - Burney Division 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Cedar - Arden 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Akron, IN 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Cedar - Kettle Falls 16.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN PINES 1 SOW -EST 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cotton Gin 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monroe Growout 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton NC DC 1,644 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton DC 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN ePowertrain Newton 1,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Driveline Newton LLC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Valdez 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southgate at Shrewsbury 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Burnham LLC d/b/a Burnham Commercial Steel Plant 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Indiana Galvanizing 16.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 14-GA 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 11402 Fallbrook 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colby Processing 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5282 - P82COW-LPH-Wheat Ridge CO 23 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.