Surface active agents manufacturing · North Carolina

Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location

Graham, NC · ~25 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Surface active agents manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Surface active agents manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location safety composite

Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325613 · Graham, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Lubrizol Advanced Ma…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lubrizol Advanced Materials (0.0 TCR gap)

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Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Surface active agents manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=10.2 · 2023=9.7 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location falls in its industry

66 Surface active agents manufact establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Surface active agents manufact employers in North Carolina.

Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location (25 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location
Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location (25 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location has fewer employees than the Surface active agents manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2024 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2023 9.7 4.8 2 0 0
2022 10.2 5.1 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.3 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325613 · NC · Graham

66 Surface active agents manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 29 employers in Graham, 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 Lubrizol Advanced Materials 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dystar Dalton 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilot Chemical Middletown 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fair View Nursery, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE John William Carter III 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill of Berry's 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andrew Tyson Farms 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alamance County 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alamance Foods Cedar Crest 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckner Heavylift Cranes, LLC. 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASPE-South LLC 146 FTE
NAT-TCR Unilock Chicago 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Panama City, Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR North Arkansas Electric Cooperative - Salem 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Environment Mechanical Services, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Residence Inn Jackson 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Express Newport 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homewood Suites Palm Desert 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE ILS Farm Partnership 25 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 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.