Bottles, plastics, manufacturing · North Carolina
Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina
Kings Mountain, NC · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.3
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bottles, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.3
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 5
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina falls in its industry
442 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi establishmentsSafer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.
Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 20 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi employers in North Carolina.
Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina has an average TCR of 3.3, which is 100% of the industry average (3.3) for Bottles, plastics, manufacturing. This is worse than average.
The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.
Trend analysis for Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina
Between 2018 and 2020, Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 0.0 to 3.5 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% change across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 6.5, a spread of 6.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina recorded 5 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 326160 - Bottles, plastics, manufacturing.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
2 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 115,866 hours worked = 3.45 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina (this establishment) | 3.31 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Bottles, plastics, manufacturing industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 326160 |
| North Carolina state avg (all industries) | 3.89 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2020: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 3 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina's reported OSHA injury record versus its Bottles, plastics, manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 100% of the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing benchmark, Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Bottles, plastics, manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.