Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing · South Carolina

Fitesa

Simpsonville, SC · ~337 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fitesa runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Fitesa: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fitesa safety composite

Fitesa scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

Fitesa held a steady TCR band

Fitesa's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.3 in 2023 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.3 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Simpsonville, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO VFT Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~337 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VFT Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fitesa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fitesa averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Fitesa TCR series: 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Fitesa falls in its industry

191 Air laid nonwoven fabrics manu establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 15 Air laid nonwoven fabrics manu employers in South Carolina.

Fitesa (337 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fitesa
Fitesa (337 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Fitesa has more employees than the Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.3 1.0 4 0 0
2023 1.3 1.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · SC · Simpsonville

191 Air laid nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 87 employers in Simpsonville, SC · 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 VFT Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foss Performance Materials LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bonded Fibers - Delavan 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blind Industries - Cumberland 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harper General Contractors, Inc. 336 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4506 338 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 630 336 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1030 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sealed Air Corp, Food And Care Division 1,199 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC_Simpsonville_2 Digital Place_33101080 983 FTE
CITY-NEAR Simpsonville 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunland Logistics Solutions 487 FTE
NAT-TCR Philadelphia Distilling 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kyaln - Upsco Airline 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mission Point of Clarkston 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 300000170855522 - WI-Green Bay-CSBC 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Superior Electrical Mechanical & Plumbing 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSM Biomedical 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supply Chain Asheville CMC 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abernethy Laurels 337 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.