General rental centers · North Carolina

Gaston Rentals, Inc.

Gastonia, NC · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gaston Rentals, Inc. runs at 849% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General rental centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Gaston Rentals, Inc.: 11.9 TCR = 849% of General rental centers BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gaston Rentals, Inc. safety composite

Gaston Rentals, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−2.2

2017→2019

Gaston Rentals, Inc. injury rate improved

Gaston Rentals, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.2 from 13.0 in 2017 to 10.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 207.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=13.0 · 2018=207.6 · 2019=10.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 532310 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 849% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Arena Stuart Rental …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arena Stuart Rental Inc (0.6 TCR gap)

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Gaston Rentals, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gaston Rentals, Inc. averages 11.9 TCR (849% of the General rental centers BLS benchmark).

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

Gaston Rentals, Inc. TCR series: 2017=13 · 2018=207.6 · 2019=10.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Gaston Rentals, Inc. falls in its industry

98 General rental centers establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 General rental centers employers in North Carolina.

Gaston Rentals, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 5.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gaston Rentals, Inc.
Gaston Rentals, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Gaston Rentals, Inc. has fewer employees than the General rental centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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
2019 10.8 10.8 3 0 0
2018 207.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 13.0 4.3 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

532310 · NC · Gastonia

98 General rental centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 Arena Stuart Rental Inc 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boston 020 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cle Elum 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2964-00204 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - NCC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Sandhill 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cowans Ford 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Craven County Wood Energy 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Countryside Manor of Bristol 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 11360 Northeast Avenue 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayo Regional Hospital 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Winholt-PA 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3339 Keystone 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE JEC Doris Avenue 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Rolled Metals LLC 29 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: 2019, 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.