Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing · North Carolina
Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC
New Bern, NC · ~174 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 7.0
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 7.0
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 68
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC's OSHA Total Case Rate of 7.0 to the Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (212% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC falls in its industry
1,221 Sheet metal work (except stamp establishmentsSafer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.
Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 38 Sheet metal work (except stamp employers in North Carolina.
Trend analysis for Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC
Between 2016 and 2024, Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC's Total Case Rate improved from 5.8 to 3.7 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 36% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 3.7, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 11.4, a spread of 7.8 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 6 reporting years, Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC recorded 68 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-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
The 68 injuries, 3 illnesses shown on this page for Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC are sourced from its own 6 years of 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 332322 - Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
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.
6 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 379,554 hours worked = 3.16 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC (this establishment) | 6.98 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg |
| Joists, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 332322 |
| 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 Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC 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.
- 2024: 7 reportable incidents · 6 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 19 reportable incidents · 17 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 12 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 12 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 13 reportable incidents · 13 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 8 reportable incidents · 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 11.4 | 9.0 | 17 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 6.6 | 6.6 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 7.3 | 4.9 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 7.1 | 4.3 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 5.8 | 3.6 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC's reported OSHA injury record versus its Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 212% of the Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing benchmark, Chatsworth Products Company, New Bern, NC reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Sheet metal work (except stampings) 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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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.