Breakfast cereals manufacturing · North Carolina

Asheboro Mill

Asheboro, NC · ~235 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Asheboro Mill runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Breakfast cereals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Asheboro Mill: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Asheboro Mill safety composite

Asheboro Mill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.6

2016→2024

Asheboro Mill injury rate improved

Asheboro Mill's TCR fell 1.6 from 2.5 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.5 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311230 · Asheboro, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK P75
  • PHOTO CEDAR RAPIDS IA (QU…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~235 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CEDAR RAPIDS IA (QUAKER) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Asheboro Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Asheboro Mill averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Asheboro Mill TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Asheboro Mill falls in its industry

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturin establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Asheboro Mill (235 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 Asheboro Mill
Asheboro Mill (235 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Asheboro Mill has more employees than the Breakfast cereals 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.9 0.4 2 0 0
2023 1.7 1.3 4 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 2 3 0
2021 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2020 1.2 0.4 3 0 0
2019 1.8 1.3 4 0 0
2018 2.1 1.7 5 0 0
2017 2.6 2.2 6 0 0
2016 2.5 2.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · NC · Asheboro

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 139 employers in Asheboro, 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 CEDAR RAPIDS IA (QUAKER) 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northfield North Distribution Center 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Campbell Mill Northfield MN 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills Cedar Rapids Iowa 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc. 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATI Specialty Materials - Bakers South 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE CVG 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tecan US 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8020236-Energizer/Asheboro 1,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8020236 Energizer Asheboro 654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Technimark, LLC Plant 5 633 FTE
CITY-NEAR Technimark LLC - Plant 5 466 FTE
NAT-TCR MANATI 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 470-Tampa 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Children's Hospital Colorado - Wheatridge 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Blalock Lumber Company 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE DK 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE ERI Plainfield, IN 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steere 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE IKEA #162 Carson 235 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.