Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) · North Carolina

Essentra HPC Charlotte

Pineville, NC · ~152 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essentra HPC Charlotte runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) workplace, earning a grade A.

Essentra HPC Charlotte: 1.6 TCR = 50% of Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essentra HPC Charlotte safety composite

Essentra HPC Charlotte scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Essentra HPC Charlotte: 1.1 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.39× in 2021

Essentra HPC Charlotte's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.1 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Pineville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 50% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #30/92
  • PHOTO Shutterfly Fort Mill
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shutterfly Fort Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essentra HPC Charlotte in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essentra HPC Charlotte averages 1.6 TCR (50% of the Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS benchmark).

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

Essentra HPC Charlotte TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Essentra HPC Charlotte falls in its industry

2,001 Offset printing (except books, establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 92 Offset printing (except books, employers in North Carolina.

Essentra HPC Charlotte (152 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Essentra HPC Charlotte
Essentra HPC Charlotte (152 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Essentra HPC Charlotte has more employees than the Offset printing (except books, printing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2021 2.3 2.3 4 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2019 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2018 3.2 2.1 6 0 0
2017 1.2 0.6 2 0 0
2016 1.1 0.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · NC · Pineville

2,001 Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 77 employers in Pineville, 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 Shutterfly Fort Mill 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Digital Room - Brookpark 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dupli-Systems, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 29-NH 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Deriva Energy, LLC (Caldwell) 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Charlotte North 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bemis Manufacturing Southeast 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE ADVANCED PLASTIFORM INC. 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0007-Atrium Health Pineville 1,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0007-CHS Pineville 1,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CLT6 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 626 EAGLETON DOWN ROAD 243 FTE
NAT-TCR T518 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Strategic Staffing LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Ellyn Storage 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Family Innovations Eden Prairie 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dolce Aspen Meadows 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Huntingburg 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sylvia G. Thompson Residence Center Inc. 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE HPC Foodservice 152 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: 2021, 2020, 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.