Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing · North Carolina

Carolina Brush Company

Gastonia, NC · ~30 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carolina Brush Company runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Carolina Brush Company: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carolina Brush Company safety composite

Carolina Brush Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Carolina Brush Company held a steady TCR band

Carolina Brush Company's TCR held near 0.0 from 3.3 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 2.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.3 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339994 · Gastonia, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK P74
  • PHOTO Sunstar Americas, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunstar Americas, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carolina Brush Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carolina Brush Company averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carolina Brush Company TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Carolina Brush Company falls in its industry

47 Brushes, household-type and in establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Carolina Brush Company (30 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 119 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Carolina Brush Company
Carolina Brush Company (30 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 119 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Carolina Brush Company has fewer employees than the Brushes, household-type and industrial, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339994 · NC · Gastonia

47 Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 Sunstar Americas, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Team Technologies, Inc. Morristown, TN 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rubbermaid Commercial Products 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR US MD Crisfield Plant 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shugart Farm 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hays Hatchery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hight Family Farms LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Point Operations Center 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Northern Dewatering Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2926 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2741 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #0982 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Dallas Market Center 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCoys Building Supply- Austin Bee Caves 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCoys Building Supply- Manchaca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hancock Gourmet Lobster Company 30 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.