Forklifts manufacturing · North Carolina

Crown-Kinston Equipment Company

Kinston, NC · ~355 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Crown-Kinston Equipment Company runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Forklifts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Crown-Kinston Equipment Company: 2.3 TCR = 69% of Forklifts manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Crown-Kinston Equipment Company safety composite

Crown-Kinston Equipment Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Crown-Kinston Equipment Company: 1.4 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2024

Crown-Kinston Equipment Company's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.4 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333924 · Kinston, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 69% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Crown Equipment Corp…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 65 inj
  • SIZE ~355 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crown Equipment Corporation Minster (0.0 TCR gap)

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Crown-Kinston Equipment Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Crown-Kinston Equipment Company averages 2.3 TCR (69% of the Forklifts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Crown-Kinston Equipment Company TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=4.3 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=2 · 2023=2 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Crown-Kinston Equipment Company falls in its industry

167 Forklifts manufacturing establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Forklifts manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Crown-Kinston Equipment Company (355 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Crown-Kinston Equipment Company
Crown-Kinston Equipment Company (355 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Crown-Kinston Equipment Company has more employees than the Forklifts manufacturing 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
2024 3.3 3.3 14 0 0
2023 2.0 1.5 8 0 0
2022 2.0 1.1 7 0 0
2021 1.6 1.3 5 0 0
2019 4.3 3.1 15 0 0
2018 2.3 1.4 8 0 0
2017 1.3 1.0 4 0 0
2016 1.4 0.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333924 · NC · Kinston

167 Forklifts manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, 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 Crown Equipment Corporation Minster 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Equipment Depot Texas, Inc. - Austin 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIBA Technologies - Littleton MA 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cascade Corporation 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Liebel-Flarsheim Company, LLC 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamlet Manufacturing Division 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carolina Foods, LLC 355 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1355 355 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caswell Developmental Center 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Lenoir Health Care 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Lenoir 744 FTE
NAT-TCR Green Bay Packaging Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkersburg- Dry Bulk Transport 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Par A Dice 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 245/SEA 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.Derenzo Company 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE TraPac, LLC-Oakland 355 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Arc of Cumberland and Perry Counties 355 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.