Other Converted Paper Product Manufacturing · North Carolina

Foodservice : KINSTON

Kinston, NC · ~324 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foodservice : KINSTON runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Other Converted Paper Product Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Foodservice : KINSTON: 1.7 TCR = 51% of Other Converted Paper Product Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foodservice : KINSTON safety composite

Foodservice : KINSTON scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−0.5

2018→2021

Foodservice : KINSTON injury rate improved

Foodservice : KINSTON's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.1 in 2018 to 0.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.1 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322299 · Kinston, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO IATRIC Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~324 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IATRIC Manufacturing Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foodservice : KINSTON in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foodservice : KINSTON averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the Other Converted Paper Product Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Foodservice : KINSTON TCR series: 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Foodservice : KINSTON falls in its industry

236 Other Converted Paper Product establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #3 safest of 7 Other Converted Paper Product employers in North Carolina.

Foodservice : KINSTON (324 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Foodservice : KINSTON
Foodservice : KINSTON (324 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Foodservice : KINSTON has more employees than the Other Converted Paper Product Manufactur median and a lower 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
2021 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2020 2.4 2.1 4 4 0
2019 2.5 2.0 7 3 0
2018 1.1 0.3 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322299 · NC · Kinston

236 Other Converted Paper Product 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 IATRIC Manufacturing Solutions 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodland - Tubes & Cores - C357 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport - Tubes & Cores - C324 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Opp - Tubes & Cores - C334 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grede II LLC 324 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4250 324 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dunn Distribution Center #6010 324 FTE
STATE-SIZE IXL Learning Inc., Raleigh, NC. 324 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 43431d - Rio Grande Zone 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 42541c - Reading Bin 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ricon 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid City Electric Company 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tel Us Hq 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Anthony Community Hospital 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orizon Industries 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE OneBlood, Inc- Orlando Main 324 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. 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.