Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing · North Carolina

Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham

Durham, NC · ~186 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham safety composite

Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham scores strongest on dart rate (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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2018→2022

Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham injury rate improved

Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham's TCR fell 5.9 from 5.9 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.9 · 2019=4.0 · 2020=2.6 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/42
  • PHOTO National Wiper Allia…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham TCR series: 2018=5.9 · 2019=4 · 2020=2.6 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham falls in its industry

191 Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 42 Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham (186 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham
Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham (186 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Freudenberg Performance Materials LP Durham has more employees than the 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.6 1.0 5 0 0
2019 4.0 2.9 7 0 0
2018 5.9 1.8 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · NC · Durham

191 Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, 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 National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norafin Americas 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Top Brass Inc 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spuntech Industries 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE CKS Graham 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6921-00304 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 030 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR Metal X Waterloo 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sparks Grocery Oultet 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Billings 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Frisco 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mans Lumber & Millwork 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Products International Corp 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arcadia Inc. 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE DIMare Fresh DFW 186 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.