Ball bearings manufacturing · North Carolina

American Roller Bearing

Name: American Roller Bearing Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Hickory, NC · ~39 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

American Roller Bearing runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Ball bearings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

American Roller Bearing: 0.8 TCR = 24% of Ball bearings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Roller Bearing safety composite

American Roller Bearing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−2.5

2017→2023

American Roller Bearing injury rate improved

American Roller Bearing's TCR fell 2.5 from 2.5 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 24% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #1/8
PHOTO Regal Rexnord
BOOK 7y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Regal Rexnord (0.0 TCR gap)

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SKF Aeroengine

0.9
Coles Carbide

0.9
Regal Beloit -

0.9
This site

0.8
Regal Rexnord

0.8

What this shows American Roller Bearing averages 0.8 TCR (24% of the Ball bearings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

American Roller Bearing TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where American Roller Bearing falls in its industry

125 Ball bearings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Ball bearings manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

American Roller Bearing (39 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

American Roller Bearing has fewer employees than the Ball bearings manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023	0.0	0.0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	3.0	3.0	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	2.5	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · NC · Hickory

125 Ball bearings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Regal Rexnord	MOREHEAD, KY	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SKF Aeroengine North America	FALCONER, NY	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Coles Carbide Corporation	BAKERSFIELD, CA	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Regal Beloit - Power Transmission Solutions	MOREHEAD, KY	0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Taylor's Nursery-Louisburg	LOUISBURG	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	B & S Farming, Inc.	NASHVILLE	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Jeffery C Lee Farms, INC	BENSON	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sullivan Farms Inc.	LUCAMA	39 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory	2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Merchants Distributors LLC	Hickory	1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Frye Regional Medical Center	Hickory	1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center	Hickory	1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR	Modern Railway Systems - Caltrain Modernization Program	San Mateo, CA	0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Joseph R. Smith, Inc.	Denton, MD	0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mactech, Inc.	Red Wing, MN	0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Atria Corp Office	Louisville, KY	0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	BrandSafway, LLC - Omaha Branch	Gretna, NE	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	TurnKey Construction, Inc.	Williamsport, PA	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lakes Heating	Akron, OH	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Saunders Company	Newberg, OR	39 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.