Knitting warp or weft fabric · North Carolina

Fairystone Fabrics

Burlington, NC · ~119 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fairystone Fabrics runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Knitting warp or weft fabric workplace, earning a grade F.

Fairystone Fabrics: 8.3 TCR = 252% of Knitting warp or weft fabric BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fairystone Fabrics safety composite

Fairystone Fabrics scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2017→2024

Fairystone Fabrics injury rate improved

Fairystone Fabrics's TCR fell 1.4 from 5.3 in 2017 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 18.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.3 · 2018=9.0 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=18.4 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313240 · Burlington, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 252% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Draper Knitting Co.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Draper Knitting Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fairystone Fabrics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fairystone Fabrics averages 8.3 TCR (252% of the Knitting warp or weft fabric BLS benchmark).

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

Fairystone Fabrics TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=9 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=18.4 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Fairystone Fabrics falls in its industry

41 Knitting warp or weft fabric establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Knitting warp or weft fabric employers in North Carolina.

Fairystone Fabrics (119 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Fairystone Fabrics
Fairystone Fabrics (119 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Fairystone Fabrics has more employees than the Knitting warp or weft fabric median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2024 3.9 0.0 4 0 0
2023 18.4 0.9 15 5 0
2022 8.6 2.6 10 0 0
2021 4.8 1.6 6 0 0
2018 9.0 4.5 12 0 0
2017 5.3 2.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313240 · NC · Burlington

41 Knitting warp or weft fabric employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 148 employers in Burlington, 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 Draper Knitting Co. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milco Industries, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polartec LLC - Hudson NH Facility 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darlington Fabrics a Division of the Moore Co Beach Street Location 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Union Power Cooperative - Monroe 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayodan 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh/Durham 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weaver Cooke Construction 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR National OnDemand, Inc 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Twin Lakes Community 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR York Road 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Retirement Ministries of Alamance County 373 FTE
NAT-TCR Mondelez Global - West Chester DSD 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tasman Amarillo, L.P. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tucson, AZ 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fitech/Ashley Ward 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northland Electrical Services 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenfield Care Center of Fullerton 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bar 20 Dairy 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Sakonnet Bay 119 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, 2018, 2017. 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.