Manufacturing · North Carolina

CKS Arden

Arden, NC · ~27 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CKS Arden runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

CKS Arden: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CKS Arden safety composite

CKS Arden scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Rising injury rate

CKS Arden: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2024

CKS Arden's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · Arden, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #12/18
  • PHOTO Plastipak- Highlands
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plastipak- Highlands (0.0 TCR gap)

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CKS Arden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CKS Arden averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

CKS Arden TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=7 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where CKS Arden falls in its industry

411 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

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 18 Manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

CKS Arden (27 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate CKS Arden
CKS Arden (27 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

CKS Arden has fewer employees than the Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2024 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · NC · Arden

411 Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 77 employers in Arden, 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 Plastipak- Highlands 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Axium Addison 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ottawa 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20 - Orange Avenue 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bissette Farms, Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet Farm 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Price Logging Inc 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASHEVILLE NC 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR DUKE-ASHEVILLE 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR BorgWarner Asheville 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jabil Healthcare Asheville 566 FTE
NAT-TCR Loris IGA #619 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0435 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0548 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0568 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Morgan County Justice Center 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richard Alatorre Swimming Pool 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rancho Park Golf Course 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palms RC 27 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. 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.