Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing · North Carolina

ADS Charlotte

Bessemer City, NC · ~79 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ADS Charlotte runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

ADS Charlotte: 4.7 TCR = 143% of Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ADS Charlotte safety composite

ADS Charlotte scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

ADS Charlotte: 3.2 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2018

ADS Charlotte's TCR rose 2.5 from 3.2 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Bessemer City, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO US7125: Milford
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US7125: Milford (0.0 TCR gap)

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ADS Charlotte in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ADS Charlotte averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ADS Charlotte TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where ADS Charlotte falls in its industry

332 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufact establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufact employers in North Carolina.

ADS Charlotte (79 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ADS Charlotte
ADS Charlotte (79 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

ADS Charlotte has more employees than the Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 5.6 4.7 6 0 0
2017 5.4 4.3 4 1 0
2016 3.2 1.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · NC · Bessemer City

332 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 7 employers in Bessemer City, 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 US7125: Milford 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NOV Fiber Glass Systems Wichita 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Diamond Industries Clinton 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CANTEX INC. Auburndale 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Laurinburg 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE GASTONIA OPS MOC GARAGE BLDG B 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sikes Place - Ste 100 / 200 / 250 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inside Sales Raleigh 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR VA Bessemer 866 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bud of California Value Added Bessemer City 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hunter Douglas Window Designs - NC 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charlotte 134 FTE
NAT-TCR 3239 Keystone 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland - SB 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Electrical Contractor Incorperated 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Milan Supply Chain Solutions 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Branson LLC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascades - IFC Disposables Inc. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE The John Clarke Retirement Center 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Works - Flat Rolled 79 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.