Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics · North Carolina

Downlite

Monroe, NC · ~155 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Downlite runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics workplace, earning a grade D.

Downlite: 5.6 TCR = 171% of Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Downlite safety composite

Downlite scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Downlite: 2.2 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

Downlite's TCR rose 6.8 from 2.2 in 2023 to 9.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313310 · Monroe, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 171% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #24/32
  • PHOTO LMT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LMT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Downlite in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Downlite averages 5.6 TCR (171% of the Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics BLS benchmark).

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

Downlite TCR series: 2023=2.2 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Downlite falls in its industry

166 Calendering textile products, establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 32 Calendering textile products, employers in North Carolina.

Downlite (155 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Downlite
Downlite (155 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Downlite has more employees than the Calendering textile products, apparel, a median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 9.1 3.4 8 0 0
2023 2.2 1.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313310 · NC · Monroe

166 Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 163 employers in Monroe, 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 LMT 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanes Dye and Finishing 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Collins Company 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global III 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE BU 3433 - I-440 Beltline Widen-Wake Cnty 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Fraser, Armour 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverlake Facility 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfspeed, Siler City, NC 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monroe Plant 1,584 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0060-CHS Union 1,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0060-Atrium Health Union 1,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1108-Atrium Health Union (1108) 1,041 FTE
NAT-TCR Uniroyal Global Engineered Products, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Palo Verde Plastering, Inc 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Blosser Ranch 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Medfleet LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Yupo Corporation America 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springfield Mass Transit District 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alltrista Plastics, LLC 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE iwis mechatronics, Inc. 155 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. 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.