Crew socks knitting or knitting and finishing · North Carolina

Catawba Sox

Hickory, NC · ~65 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Catawba Sox runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Crew socks knitting or knitting and finishing workplace, earning a grade D.

Catawba Sox: 6.6 TCR = 200% of Crew socks knitting or knitting and finishing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Catawba Sox safety composite

Catawba Sox scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−11.5

2016→2018

Catawba Sox injury rate improved

Catawba Sox's TCR fell 11.5 from 11.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.5 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 315110 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO Darn Tough VT
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darn Tough VT (0.2 TCR gap)

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Catawba Sox in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Catawba Sox averages 6.6 TCR (200% of the Crew socks knitting or knitting and finishing BLS benchmark).

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

Catawba Sox TCR series: 2016=11.5 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Catawba Sox falls in its industry

25 Crew socks knitting or knittin establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Crew socks knitting or knittin employers in North Carolina.

Catawba Sox (65 employees, TCR 6.6) among 19 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 20 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Catawba Sox
Catawba Sox (65 employees, TCR 6.6) among 19 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Catawba Sox has fewer employees than the Crew socks knitting or knitting and fini median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.3 3.3 5 0 0
2016 11.5 0.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

315110 · NC · Hickory

25 Crew socks knitting or knitting and finishing 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Darn Tough VT 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cabot Hosiery Mills INc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albahealth 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AgMart Produce, Inc. LELAND, NC 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Kinston Hatchery 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayo Fossil Plant 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newell Operations Center 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR New Mark Care Center 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ace Cab LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tx510-Lpz-Tx510 Dallas Wh 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Md620-Lpz-Md620 Baltimore Wh 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Joplin 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE RLS 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE KLC 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magnolia Springs at Bridgewater 65 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.